Thessaloniki, a city with an Ottoman, Byzantine, and Sephardic past, is located in the Balkan area of Macedonia, in northern Greece. Its history is the story of people who have come from someplace else. For several hundred years, the majority population of the city was comprised…
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The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina early this decade confounded the international community to the point of inaction. Was that war to be understood as intra-national, and thus a civil war, or as international, and thus falling under the jurisdiction of international law? That befuddl…
From the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War Greek foreign policy was shaped by the dynamics of the Cold War. The major issues facing Greek foreign policy decision makers in the post-cold war era are its relations with its Northern neighbors, Albania, The Former Yugoslav Repu…
This thesis considers the extent to which decentralisation in the Republic of Macedonia between 2005 and 2012 has been effective in reducing ethnic inequalities that exacerbate social divisions and can lead to conflict. Guided by the concept of horizontal inequalities, it identi…
This thesis contributes to the field of economics of happiness by examining, for the first time in detail, the determinants of subjective well-being (SWB) in Macedonia. Three data sources, European Quality of Life Survey, World Bank Indicators and World Governance Indicators for…
This dissertation explores the intersection between rival forms of consciousness in Pirin Macedonia: national and local, from the anti-Ottoman Ilinden Uprising in Macedonia in 1903 to the end of the Communist "Macedonianization" campaign in 1952. Bulgarian, Macedonian and Englis…
This dissertation narrates an important episode in the transition of Christian peasants of Macedonia into nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century. I attempt to explain how a peasant society in the Ottoman Empire was co-opted into a war that was subsequently christened an…
The issue of institutional engineering has gained a renewed interest with the democratic transitions of the Central and Eastern European countries, as for some states it has become a matter of state survival. The four countries examined in the study - Macedonia, Slovakia, Romani…
Recently, ethnicity has received greater attention from international conflict scholars. This study explores a new aspect of how ethnic composition of states and the power of ethnic kin affect external state interventions in ethnic conflicts. Here it is hypothesized that states …
This dissertation examines the emergence of norms and the process through which these influence state behaviour. State identity conceptualized in ethnic or civic terms, shapes state preferences concerning the recognition of new states. Hence, the ethnic or civic identity of Germ…
The United States, in cooperation with European governments and international aid organizations, has sponsored the development of independent media as a major component of both conflict interventions and democratization programs, and more recently as part of nation building effo…
Macedonia and Thrace were a geographically expansive and culturally intertwined crossroads for people, goods, and ideas in the northeast corner of the ancient Mediterranean. During their integration into the Roman Empire (2nd century BC - mid-1st century AD), Macedonia and Thrac…