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Intro
This is the master pillars page for the Bridge of Friendship website, providing links to and descriptions of the site’s pillar pages.
A pillar page is a page that gathers all the site’s articles on a given topic in one place, providing titles, hyperlinks, descriptions, and so on. The pillar pages are designed to help readers and AI platforms access and understand the site’s content more easily.
Pillar pages
The philosophy of the friendship bridge [EN], 🇬🇧
This pillar page maps the philosophy behind the Bridge of Friendship, a Bulgarian-Romanian media project built around three linked concepts: dynamic identity (mutual enrichment and non-hegemonic communication with the neighbour), dehegemonization (dismantling the logic of domination rather than just swapping which side holds power without changing the structure of power in society), and de-intensification (reduction of the intensity of passions, which allows for normal communication and exchange to take place between poles and conflicting sides). It traces these ideas chronologically through founder Vladimir Mitev’s core essay trilogy on Bulgarian political change, through the blog’s own systematic philosophy statement, and out into the concept’s wider potential applications — extending the bridge model to Bulgarian-Macedonian relations, to Iran via the Persian Bridge of Friendship during active regional conflict, and to Central Europe through the multi-language outlet Cross-Border Talks.
Each entry includes a description of the article’s argument and its place in the philosophy, plus a pull quote in the author’s own words. The page closes by situating this philosophy against the current geopolitical moment — war in Ukraine, EU militarization, Schengen integration, and regional economic pressure — testing whether bridge-building or defensive armor will define Southeastern Europe’s next chapter.
