The Prespa Agreement: A Political geography
Date Issued
2023
Author(s)
Kitevski, Goran
DOI
10.18509/GBP23079k
Abstract
The subject of the research is the Prespa Agreement, which gave North Macedonia a new
name, in exchange for support from Greece in North Macedonia’s aspirations towards the
European Union and NATO. The paper analyzes the key points from the first part of the
agreement, which are the essence of the Macedonian-Greek naming issue: the formulation
of the Macedonian nationality, the recognition of the Macedonian language, the
differences in understanding and the possibility of using the terms Macedonia and
Macedonian for the both sides, as well as the meaning of the agreement in a broader
political sense. There are a number of researches on the topic of Macedonian-Greek issue,
which are more focused on thе naming problem, from the occurrence to its solution, so
the main goal of this paper is to try to give another, political-geographic overview of the
identity issues arising after the Prespa Agreement.
name, in exchange for support from Greece in North Macedonia’s aspirations towards the
European Union and NATO. The paper analyzes the key points from the first part of the
agreement, which are the essence of the Macedonian-Greek naming issue: the formulation
of the Macedonian nationality, the recognition of the Macedonian language, the
differences in understanding and the possibility of using the terms Macedonia and
Macedonian for the both sides, as well as the meaning of the agreement in a broader
political sense. There are a number of researches on the topic of Macedonian-Greek issue,
which are more focused on thе naming problem, from the occurrence to its solution, so
the main goal of this paper is to try to give another, political-geographic overview of the
identity issues arising after the Prespa Agreement.
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