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- Title
MACEDONIAN-GREEK SOCIETAL SECURITY DILEMMA: REAL OR IMAGINARY INCOMPATIBILITY?
- Authors
POPOVSKA, BILJANA; SLAVESKI, STOJAN
- Abstract
On the question of Macedonia's societal security needs, which ethnic Macedonians view as crucial for the preservation of Macedonian identity (the name of the state, nation and language), its neighbor to the south opposes any and every reference to "Macedonia". Greece does not deny the Slavic identity of Macedonians, but strongly objects to the name "Macedonia", which it believes to be part of the Greek cultural heritage. Greeks consider the ancient Macedonians to have been the ancestors of today's Greek Macedonians living in the geographical region known as Aegean Macedonia, and, as such, the name Macedonia is considered in Athens as being part of Greece's cultural heritage. Hence, Greece wants the Republic of Macedonia to incorporate a geographical qualifier into its official name, thereby distinguishing the Greek Macedonian identity from that of its northern neighbor. Against the backdrop of this societal security dilemma, the Macedonian national identity and the Greek Macedonian identity are locked in competition. This paper will focus on misconceptions between the parties and the quest for solutions to the Macedonian-Greek societal security dilemma.
- Subjects
MACEDONIA; GREECE; ETHNICITY; TWENTY-first century; SOCIAL history; ETHNIC relations
- Publication
Romanian Review of Political Sciences & International Relations, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 2, p40
- ISSN
1841-2300
- Publication type
Article