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The New Macedonian Question Also by James Pettifer ALBANIA: From Anarchy to a Balkan Identity (with Miranda Vickers) BLUE GUIDE TO ALBANIA BLUE GUIDE TO BULGARIA THE GREEKS: Land and People since the War THE TURKISH LABYRINTH The New Macedonian Question Edited by James Pettifer Visiting Professor Institute of Balkan Studies Thessaloniki First published in Great Britain 1999 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-333-92066-4 ISBN 978-0-230-53579-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-0-230-53579-4 First published in the United States of America 1999 by ST. MARTIN’S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-22240-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The New Macedonian question / edited by James Pettifer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-22240-6 (cloth) 1. Macedonia (Republic)—Politics and government—1992– 2. Macedonian question. 3. Macedonia (Republic)—Ethnic relations. I. Pettifer, James. DR2253.N48 1999 949.5'6076—dc21 98–53724 CIP Selection, editorial matter, Introduction and Chapters 2 and 10 © James Pettifer 1999 Chapters 1, 3–9, 11–18 © Macmillan Press Ltd 1999 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 For Nigel and Maria Clive This page intentionally left blank Contents List of maps x Preface to the paperback edition xi Abbreviations xvii A chronology of key events in Macedonian history, 1870–1999 xxiv A chronology of events in Yugoslav–Macedonian relations, 1990–2000 xxvi Notes on the contributors xxxii Introduction by James Pettifer xxxvii Former Yugoslavia Macedonia after 1991 xl Balkan frontier changes involving Macedonia xli Balkan frontiers in 2000 xliii Part I The National Question in modern Macedonia 1 The origin of the Macedonian dispute 3 Elisabeth Barker 2 The new Macedonian question 15 James Pettifer 3 Policy and economy in Macedonia 28 Jens Reuter 4 Macedonian identity: an overview of the major claims 47 Kyril Drezov 5 IMRO + 100 = FYROM? The politics of Macedonian historiography 60 Stefan Troebst 6 Yugoslavia and Macedonia in the years 1991–6: from brotherhood to neighbourhood 79 Nina Dobrkovic´ vii viii Contents 7 The unrealistic dreams of large states 96 Kiro Gligorov Part II Ethnic minorities 8 Non-Albanian Muslim minorities in Macedonia 107 Hugh Poulton 9 The Vlachs of the Republic of Macedonia 126 Tom Winnifrith 10 The Albanians in western Macedonia after FYROM independence 137 James Pettifer 11 Status and rights of nationalities in the Republic of Macedonia 148 Gjorgi Caca Part III Historical perspectives 12 IMRO groupings in Bulgaria after the Second World War 167 Ivanka Nedeva and Naoum Kaytchev 13 Albania, Macedonia and the British military missions, 1943 and 1944 184 Reginald Hibbert Part IV International relations of the new state 14 Engineering the foreign policy of a new independent State: the Case of Macedonia, 1990–6 201 Dimitar Mirc´ev 15 Greek policy considerations over FYROM independence and recognition 226 Evangelos Kofos 16 Macedonia in the context of present-day Russian foreign policy 263 Nina Smirnova 17 The Balkans and the Mediterranean policy of Russia 268 Nina Smirnova and Alla A. Yaskova Contents ix 18 Former Yugoslav Macedonia, the regional setting and European security: towards Balkan stability? 285 Sophia Clément Further Reading 303 Index 305
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