Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the BAS (2018). PhD in political science (SU “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 2009). He was a postgraduate research scholar at the London School of Economics (2003, Hansard/Chevening Scholar).


Bulgarian political institutions and the war in Ukraine; the populist radical right in Bulgaria; political institutions and ethnic conflicts; history of political thought.

Latest book:
Cholakov, P. (2018) Ethnic Entrepreneurs Unmasked: Political Institutions and Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary Bulgaria, Stuttgart: Ibidem Press. Distributed by Columbia University Press in North and South America.
Link: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/ethnic-entrepreneurs-unmasked/9783838211893


Project: Bulgaria and the Ukrainian crisis (2019-2022).