마케도니아 민족갈등에 관한 연구

The Study about national conflict in Macedonia

Macedonia, the most conflicting area from the late 19th Century to the Balkan Wars (1912/13) during the early 20th Century has been considered as the international disputing one again. And this concern is visible more and more after the Kosovo conflict in March 1999. The reason for attracting the international interests in these conflicts in Macedonian and in other areas around Balkan is that these areas are related with each other with regards to history, nation, and strategy. Especially, after Macedonia was independent on the Old Yugoslavia(SFRJ) and declared as a “the great Republic of Macedonia", the conflict between Macedonia and Greece began to start and since then the West and many specialists got interests in these areas with activity. In spite of the normalization of the diplomatic relations between both countries in September 1995, these conflicts in those areas around Macedonia still remain latent at this moment. The main reason for these conflicts in areas around Macedonia is that there has been the mixture in ethnic, religion. and so on. And because of this situation, border line between Macedonia and other nations has been indistinct. Thus, the nations around Macedonia have made efforts to unite their own nations, and religions to get more advantage. And this situation has made conflicts continue. Macedonia (F.Y.R.M.) is most unstable and after the Kosovo conflict, Macedonia has enforced Albanian Nationalism to get the "Great Albania". To the contrast, Serbian Nationalist claims the right of the ownership of the borderline in the northern Macedonia, and encourages the Serbian to be armed. Bulgarian regards Macedonia as a part of her territory and doesn't recognize the uniqueness of the Macedonian language. In the case of Greece, Greece prevents Macedonian from using the name of Macedonian as an independent nation and other symbols to interrupt the independence of Macedonia, and furthermore denies the economical and political support. Finally this instability and threats in home and abroad in Macedonia (F.Y.R.M.) can cause other more serious conflicts among nations around Balkan. So, the interests of U.S and the West are required to help this not to develop into the more international and serious conflicts than Yugoslavia, Bosnia, and Kosovo, because these conflicts contain more serious factors. Thus this happen, then, it will much more serious than other conflicts. In other words, If these conflicts happen, it is clear that other nations around this area will involve these conflicts.