A modo de presentación. Macedonia, 1991-2016: un cuarto de siglo en cuestión
- Carlos Flores Juberías
- Miguel Rodríguez Andreu
ISSN: 2530-9676, 2172-5535
Année de publication: 2016
Titre de la publication: Macedonia del Norte, monográfico
Número: 7
Pages: 11-14
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Balkania
Résumé
On 8 September, the Republic of Macedonia celebrated its first twenty-five years as an independent state, evoking the historic day of autumn 1991 when more than 95% of its citizens voted in favor of its peaceful and democratic emancipation from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that had already started to break apart. For most of the last quarter century, Macedonia has managed to live and grow, as a society and as a state, virtually apart from current news trends. This is an achievement that is no small feat if we take into account its geographic location –in the very heart of a peninsula whose name has become synonymous with division and confrontation– and the signs of the times into which it was born, alternatively dominated either by fratricidal confrontations or by the embers of authoritarianism, or by both at the same time.