Could Social Sciences be a Factor of Democratic Dialogue: the Case of Macedonia
Why interethnic relations? Considering Macedonian society during this period, the most important conflicts were interethnic ones. Fortunately, these conflicts were not always open conflict situations, but still, throughout all that period, they were more or less expressed through clear tensions between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Macedonians, or more precisely, between the Macedonian nation and the Albanian ethnic minority in the state.
Bulgarian ‘Macedonian’ Nationalism in the Post 1989 Decade
In the present context, the understanding of nationalism builds on the insights of two authors. The one is Gelner’s view of nationalism as a principle of political legitimacy according to which political borders should match cultural ones (where ‘culture’ = ’nation,’ since the latter, unlike the state, is par excellence a culturally defined community). The other stems from Breuilly’s important differentiation of nationalism as mass sentiment, ideology and politics, and his consequent claim that nationalism should be understood as a form of politics.
The Paradoxes of Resolution 1244
Laws by their nature try to put order and control over different societal relations: between a person and a state, between states etc. They in themselves involve an interest from which some people benefit more and some less, dependant on there being whatever factor, one standard, a testimony that describes the developing level of a particular civilization.
Macedonian Macedonians National Minority in its own country?
Homo Balkanicus has undergone five centuries of Ottoman slavery that has embedded a servant mentality as an almost genetic characteristic in its Slavic population, which migrated to the Balkan Peninsula from behind the Carpathian Mountains around the sixth century. This is a unique theory to explain the wide range of dictatorial regimes in the region ruled by Stalin, Ceausescu, Zhivkov, Hoxha and, slightly less brutally, by Tito.