Macedonia
Challenges of Interethnic Powersharing and Integration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2984931 |
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| Authors | Zhidas Daskalovski (0000-0003-3945-1004, University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Bitola, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 261-283 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Southeast European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2701-8199 • E-ISSN: 2701-8202 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/soeu-2009-572-309 |
| OpenAlex | W4300020439 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Contrary to other successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Macedonia has achieved independent statehood and democratic consolidation without major warfare . Macedonia's reforms have been focused simultaneously on state building as well as legal and economic reform . Macedonian political elites have established practices of interethnic power sharing but are now faced with the challenges of Euro-Atlantic integration and the Greek objections to their country's name . Macedonia was not invited to join NATO at the Bucharest Summit in April 2008 . Athens insists that Macedonia must add a "qualifier" to its name in order to differentiate the country from the northern province of Greece bearing the same name . At the snap elections held in June 2008, the conservative Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization -Democratic Party of Macedonian Unity (VMRO-DPMNE) single-handedly won more than half of the seats in parliament -63 out of 120 deputies, and formed a new coalition with the strongest ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Union of Integration (DUI)
Geography · Political science · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · European Politics and Security · European Union Policy and Governance
| Highly cited | No |
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