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Naming and Shaming in the Balkans

Modern-day nationalist aspirations in Macedonia and the Macedonian language reach far back in history. The Prespa agreement between Greece and Macedonia may be ailing but represents the region's best bet to overcome chauvinism.

Victor A. Friedman

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Politics & Society Oct 19, 2018 Response

Naming and Shaming in the Balkans

Modern-day nationalist aspirations in Macedonia and the Macedonian language reach far back in history. The Prespa agreement between Greece and Macedonia may be ailing...

Victor A. Friedman

Politics & Society Oct 12, 2018 Response

The Problem With “North Macedonia”

A name change alone won't solve the two countries' problems.

Ioannis Kotoulas

Law & Institutions Oct 1, 2018 Snapshot

The Name’s Macedonia. North Macedonia.

Macedonia's potential name-change could end a decades-long dispute over lanugage, national identity, and history between the country and its southern neighbor Greece.

Victor A. Friedman

Greece Jun 15, 2018 Snapshot

Name Dropping in the Balkans

One of the longest-running and also seemingly silliest disputes in the Balkans may have finally been resolved.

Florian Bieber

Economics January/February 2018 Review Essay

Beware Greeks Bearing Rifts

Despite his largely correct convictions about the Greek debt crisis, Yanis Varoufakis was not an effective politician and he failed to negotiate a better deal with...

Martin Sandbu

Campaigns & Elections Sep 27, 2017 Snapshot

The Volatile State of Greek Politics

Although the Greek elections are theoretically scheduled for 2019, Greek politics are volatile and an election could come much sooner.

Harris Mylonas

Arms Control & Disarmament Aug 7, 2017 Snapshot

Tanking Up in Greece

For the past generation, Greece has been spending enormous amounts on its armed forces

Elisabeth Braw

Refugees & Migration Dec 5, 2016 Snapshot

Lost in Migration

Last fall, Chios—along with the Greek islands of Kos, Leros, Lesbos, and Samos—found itself in the path of an international humanitarian crisis as it became a transit...

Tania Karas

Containers housing migrants on the Greek island of Chios, February 2016.

Pakistan Aug 29, 2016 Letter From

Escaping the Taliban in Pakistan

Why the West writes off Pakistani refugees fleeing the Taliban and violence at home.

Saima Hassan

Health Jul 28, 2016 Letter From

Refugees and Greece's Health Crisis

A public health crisis is looming in Greece's refugee camps.

Sonia Shah

A migrant boy in a makeshift camp near the Greeek village of Idomeni, March 2016.

Greece May 3, 2016 Snapshot

Greece's Next Bailout Battle

The Greek economic crisis, which has been dragging for six years, seems to be in a lull. But that pause may well prove to be temporary. In fact, a new round of turmoil...

Stathis N. Kalyvas

A frayed Greek national flag flutters among antennas atop a building in central Athens, Greece in this file photo taken, July 20, 2015.

Refugees & Migration Mar 29, 2016 Snapshot

The Gulf in the Aegean

Greece and Turkey's disputes over the Aegean have never been resolved. And that has gotten in the way of European refugee rescue efforts.

Jonathan Gorvett

A Frontex helicopter patrols over a Syrian child that has just arrived at a beach at the Greek island of Lesbos, August 10, 2015.

Gender Oct 30, 2015 Snapshot

Modern Love in Ancient Greece

Although it remains a hugely taboo subject in Greece, sexual relationships between men were fairly common among the ancients (although some argue it was reserved for...

Jonathan Zimmerman

Refugees & Migration Sep 29, 2015 Snapshot

An Aegean Alliance

Greece and Turkey are divided many issues. But when it comes to immigration, they have turned from frontline warriors to laissez-faire observers of the migrant crisis,...

Victor Gaetan

A migrant carries a child during a protest as they want to be allowed to continue their journey to Greece or Bulgaria, outside the Sarayici oil wrestling arena in Edirne, Turkey, September 21, 2015.

Greece Sep 21, 2015 Snapshot

Power to Our People

Although left-wing politics generally advocate cross-border solidarity, in modern states, the parties of the left have frequently found themselves as bedfellows with...

Nikolaos Papadogiannis

A worker peers over a campaign banner of leftist Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras in Syntagma square in Athens, Greece, September 18, 2015.

Economic Development Sep 14, 2015 Snapshot

What Really Happened In Greece

To understand what will happen next, it is worth reexamining three critical moments: when, in October 2014, former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras failed to live up to...

Stathis N. Kalyvas

A Greek presidential guard performs a ceremonial march at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the parliament building in Athens, Greece, September 12, 2015.

Greece Aug 27, 2015 Audio

Kathleen McNamara on Greece and the EU

In this Foreign Affairs Unedited podcast, Kathleen McNamara, author of the recent book The Politics of Everyday Europe discusses the future of the EU...

Political Development Aug 26, 2015 Snapshot

Tsipras' Gamble

For Tsipras, this is a race against time. If he can push forward with the election while he is still popular and before the harm he caused the Greek economy catches up...

George Tsebelis

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens, Greece, August 20, 2015.

Brain Trust Aug 10, 2015 Snapshot

Is Greece to Blame for the Crisis?

We poll 33 experts on whether they think that Greece bears the lion's share of the responsibility for its debt crisis.

A passes a mural depicting a wrecking ball smashing a wall of austerity measures in Athens, July 22, 2015.

Business Aug 6, 2015 Snapshot

The Myth of the Bloated Greek State

The most important misconception about the crisis is that the Greek state is “too big.” This is taken to mean that it either spends too much or that it employs too...

Deborah Boucoyannis

A municipal worker dressed in a traditional costume protests against the government's plan to layoff thousands of public sector workers as part of its austerity reform program, April 26, 2013.

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