Great Britain and Macedonian Statehood and Unification 1940-49
Great Britain and Macedonian Statehood and Unification 1940-49
Author(s): Andrew RossosSubject(s): Political history, International relations/trade, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Period(s) of Nation Building, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Political history; declaration of independence; Republic of Macedonia; disintegration of Yugoslavia; wars; Macedonian statehood; Great Britain; 1991; 1940-1949;
Summary/Abstract: The declaration of independence by the Republic of Macedonia in September 1991, in the wake of the bloody disintegration of the Yugoslav federation, provoked a dangerous political and diplomatic crisis. Potentially it posed a far greater threat to Balkan and European peace and stability than the war to the north, in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. A war over Macedonia would have been from the very outset a much wider conflict, an international war. It would have involved not only former republics of Yugoslavia, but all of Macedonia's neighbors and possibly Turkey; and, since Greece and Turkey were bound to be on opposite sides, it would have become an armed conflict between two member countries of the NATO alliance. The crisis was the result of the determined opposition-in some cases direct and overt, in others indirect and concealed-of the neighboring Balkan states to the establishment of an independent Macedonian state. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 14/2000
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 119-142
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English
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