... Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (FYROM), it revealed its irredentist aspirations and a furious wave of hatred against Greece (which owns 75 percent of King Philip's Macedonia). Claiming that its Slavic inhabitants are “Macedonians,” FYROM's ultranationalist administration is determined to continue stirring...

... by the West as a good example of stability. However, because of several systemic weaknesses—past habits acquired during fifty years of communism—FYROM has become and will always be a destabilizing force, especially if it continues to pursue the expropriation of the Hellenic Macedonian name and ethnicity...

... foment insurgencies across the borders into Serbia’s Presevo Valley and Macedonia. The armed rebellion in both areas in the first half of 2001 was the fruit of that U.S.-NATO policy. The United States and NATO have now made a bad situation even worse. By pressuring the Macedonian government...

... as Bulgarian Orthodox churches refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Macedonian Ortho- dox Church and allow it its own archbishopric. Bulgaria continues to deny Macedonia’s claims that Macedonian is a distinct language from Bulgarian.2 Greece also refused to recognize Macedonia’s independence from...

... In the second half of the nineteenth century, more than three-quarters of a million Albanians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Residing in Albania proper, in the western departments of the Macedonian provinces (vilayets) of Monastir, Kosovo, and Epirus, the Albanian people were divided into Chris...

... boycott of Macedonia’s parliament in 2006 – 7 has already resulted in Macedonia’s failure to pass several important pieces of legislation needed for the country’s EU accession bid, and even the two main Macedonian political parties in the country are experiencing extremely bad relations, all...

...), www.cato.org/publications/policy- analysis/waist- deep- balkans- sinking- washington- confronts - crisis- macedonia; “Macedonian Slavs Protest Concessions to Ethnic Albanians,” Fox News, 16 July 2001, www.foxnews.com/story/2001/07/16/macedonian- slavs- protest- concessions- to- ethnic - albanians.html...

... of economic and social devel- opment, leading to intraethnic confrontation and conflict. The same held true in Franjo Tudjman’s Croatia. The Albanian national issue is a cornerstone of interethnic conflicts in most Balkan states. The Macedonian issue, on the other hand, emerged as part of the general...

....reviews 4/10/00 11:47 AM Page 131 Reviews 131 of attention to the Macedonian issue, he does not neglect Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, or Greek-Albanian relations. The third essay in this section is more...

....reviews 4/10/00 11:47 AM Page 131 Reviews 131 of attention to the Macedonian issue, he does not neglect Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, or Greek-Albanian relations. The third essay in this section is more...

... Reviews 131 of attention to the Macedonian issue, he does not neglect Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, or Greek-Albanian relations. The third essay in this section is more thematic and deals with the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the postcommunist...

... have had a greater role in and impact on Greece than any other state. But to view our experience solely through Greek eyes is to choose a very narrow lens indeed. There are Serbian eyes, Bulgarian eyes, Macedonian eyes, Romanian eyes, even British and German eyes, among many others, that provide...

... dimension of intermingling, consider these thoughts by Milan Misic, a commentator for Politika. Under the title “Soft Power Serbia,” he wrote on 27 December 2008 of being eleven hundred kilometers south of Belgrade at a motel in Djevdjelije at the Macedonian border to Greece. “A magnet for local...

...., 34 – 8. 13. Demetrios Grammenos et al., From Prehistoric Settlements of Central Macedonia [in Greek] (Thessaloniki: Institute of Macedonian Studies, 1997). 14. Ceka, The Illyrians, 39. According to Dionysios of Alikarnassos, Dardanus was the son of Zeus and Electra and founded Troy (Dardanelles...

... support, espe- cially in light of its intrusion in our domestic affairs.”59 Alexandar Iordanov, the former Bulgarian ambassador to Skopje, elaborated the full implications of Kalfin’s thinly veiled threat: “Our Macedonian friends cannot eschew the European lesson of our shared cultural-historical...

... goals of questionable logic, merit, or morality has been in evi- dence since the Bosnian conflict of the early 1990s through to the more recent Kosovo and Macedonian conflicts. The 11 September 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., however, should now...

... to their various poleis. (There might even be echoes of this to today, with modern Greeks often emphasizing their region of birth, lovingly called the “special homeland.” For example, this author self-­ identifies as a Greek Macedonian.) At the same time, notions of a shared Hellenic cultural heritage...

... deal of its power to influence govern- ment policy. Such shifts opened the door for the AKP to push its new policy image. Loring Danforth highlights the role of the state in nationalism through his discussion of the Macedonian conflict. His work showcases the conflict- ing views...

..., in a systematic and aggressive manner, FYROM’s state and nonstate institutions poison the minds and souls of young Slav-Macedonian generations with the distorted historical picture of unredeemed parts of their nation and state under Greek oppression and occupation. This makes the establishment of peaceful...