Our mission; Launching New Balkan Politics
New Balkan Politics, is the first Macedonian on-line journal in the area of social sciences. A group of scholars, are responsible for the launching of this journal. Its primary goal is to cover topics in the arenas of political theory and international relations (security, defense, ethnopolitical conflicts, etc.), in Macedonia and, more specifically, the Balkans.
New Balkan Politics (Promotions Speech)
The new age is the epoch of knowledge and information, of pondering and spiritual exchange. The old dreams for the absolute reach of reality are contained in it, as well as for reinforcing and replacing physical labor with mechanical, for the automatization of functions and mechanization of thought. Moreover, new reality is being created.
LAW, POLITICS AND HISTORY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: MACEDONIA AND GREECE
After the violent desintegration of the Yugoslav federation in the ninetees, Greek nationalism would not accept the fact of the existance of an independent Macedonian state on its border, the existance of a distinct Macedonian national identity, much less that such an identity exists on its own territory. Believing that the Macedonian name is part of their historic heretage and that it can not be used for the identification of another nation, the new Macedonian identity was experienced as threatening to the feelings of Greekness, but also to the cohesion of the new Greek-Macedonian national identity. Memories of the Cold War and the attempts by the world Communist movement, during the Greek civil war, to alter the borders of 1913/1919, gave these feelings such intensity that the new Slav-Macedonian identiry was looked upon as a threat to Greek national security. So, we were dealt with accordingly...