Scaling and Managing Defense and Security Self-Assessments in the New European Democracies. A Security Quiz of the National and Regional Interests and Objectives for Romania and Bulgaria

The aim of the present article is to explain the recent theoretical developments of security and defense by arguing where, how and when national security and strategic planning and implementation of Romania and Bulgaria fits into the regional process of security. The present article also integrates the answers to the following security-assessment quiz by reflecting and answering the following six issues: the national security planning and implementation definition and key concepts, the national security creation and maintenance to react to regional/international changes, the defense dimension viewed as a separate structural and functional mechanisms and instruments