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The Name Issue Revisited: an examination of the Greek-Macedonian dispute

The Name Issue Revisited, an Anthology of Academic Articles is finally now out.

Part I: The Name Issue in the Context of International Law
Matthew CR Craven – What’s in a Name? The Republic of Macedonia and Issues of Statehood............................................................................... 17
Jean-Pierre Queneudec – The Name and Symbols of the State in International Law....................................................................................55
Larry Reimer – Macedonia: Cultural Right or Cultural Appropriation?..................... 61
Carlos Flores Juberías – Putting the Name Issue in a Comparative Perspective ..........79
Jana Lozanoska – The True Substance of the Name Issue: Consequences of an Invented Dispute for the Republic of Macedonia...............................95
Budislav Vukas – The 1995 Interim Accord and Membership of the Republic of Macedonia in International Organizations............................. 113
Ernest Petrič – “Legal Validity” of the ICJ Advisory Opinions ................................ 119
Sašo Georgievski – Normative Power Role of the European Union in the Settlement of the Difference Over the Name? A Macedonian View..................................................................................129
Part II: The Name Issue in Political Context
Richard Caplan – The European Community’s Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia .......................................................................... 155
John Shea – The Greek Dispute With the New Republic of Macedonia – to 1995..............................................................169
Biljana Vankovska – David vs. Goliath: The Macedonian Position(s) in the So-Called “Name Dispute”.............................................................. 195
Spyros A. Sofos – Beyond the Intractability of the Greek-Macedonian Dispute ........223
Part III: Identity, Origin and Language—Deconstructing the Myths Surrounding the Name Issue
Victor A. Friedman – The So-Called Macedonian Name Issue in the Context of Modern Macedonian Historiography, Language, and Identity.............239
Loring M. Danforth – The Scholar and the State: Evangelos Kofos on the International Recognition of the Republic of Macedonia .........................253
George Vlahov, Vasko Nastevski and Chris Popov – A Survey of the ‘Macedonian
Question’: The Greek State’s Campaign to Prevent International Recognition of the Republic of Macedonia and Greece’s Refusal to Recognize the Macedonian Minority in Greece....................................267
Katerina Kolozova – Living Beyond Identity?...........................................................305
Akis Gavriilidis – Name Trouble: A Refusal “Especially Difficult to Understand”—and Its Inevitable Failure................................................... 313
Part IV: The Name Issue in Historical Context
Mitko B. Panov – Real and Created Perceptions of Macedonia and the Macedonians in Byzantine Sources from the 4th to the 11th Century: Reconstruction and Deconstruction .........................................................343
Dalibor Jovanovski – Science and Politics—The Creation and Promotion of the Northern Line of the Greek Aspirations in Ottoman Macedonia ............................................................................. 371
Andrew Rossos – Incompatible Allies: Greek Communism and Macedonian Nationalism in the Civil War in Greece, 1943-1949.................................389
Todor Cepreganov – The Great Powers and the Macedonian National Issue During World War II........................................................ 419
Todor Cepreganov and Liljana Panovska – The Civil War in Greece (1946-1949): One Event in History—One Lesson for the Future..................................435
Dimitar Ljorovski Vamvakovski – The Naming of Macedonians by the Greek State (1946-1949): Options and Dilemmas....................................443
Dimitris Lithoksou – ‘The Skopjan Enemy’................................................................ 455
Part V: Testimonials
Zhelyu Zhelev – Once Again on the Recognition of Macedonia and the Name Dispute.....................................................................................463

Robin O’Neill – Macedonia and the European Community: 1992............................ 479
Takis Michas – Plans for Macedonia.........................................................................497



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