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...
EDITOR’S COMMENT ON THE CURRENT MACEDONIAN ISSUE BETWEEN SKOPJE AND ATHENS
I have invited several distinguished academic scholars to express their views on the incredible dispute between Macedonia and Greece regarding the name of the country – Macedonia. I had hoped to see impartial, objective analysis about the origin of the dispute, its history from 1991 until today, and what the perspective is to find a solution...
SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOR OF THE OFFICIALS OF THE EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR RECONSTRUCTION
A sublime goal, to stimulate the protection of the minority rights in Macedonia, has ended up in the exactly opposite direction: with violation of the human rights by the officials of the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR)...
The politician, the diplomat and the people: Macedonian foreign policy experiences
The optimism, and even the euphoria with which the peoples of Eastern Europe marked the end of the Cold War and the fall of one-party dictatorships, has vanished. It was thought that it will be difficult for communism to fall and very easy to create a democratic society, but it all turned the other way round. The international and the domestic challenges facing the countries of Eastern Europe and the Balkans were huge. At the level of international society, the tide that sucked Russian power behind its borders, created a vacuum in which some thirty new states, many without state tradition, found themselves.