Abstract
Macedonia has particular features in the Balkanic entanglement. On the one hand, we could say it is a "classical" Balkanic country, with all the negative connotations this adjective unfortunately implies: a post-Yugoslavian country, which encounters difficulties to ensure its authority, a society in crisis, corruption, and the rampant problem of extremist nationalism, enhanced by the presence of minorities on the Macedonian territory. Nonetheless, on the other hand, and at least till 2001, we could hope that Macedonia would step forward other Balkanic countries, by its capacity to avoid conflict, its respect of minorities and the success of its democratic transition (compared to other countries hardly affected by wars). Indeed, the existence of Macedonia, after 1991, was not obvious at all, since the small country had problems with almost all its neighbours. The rampant conflict with Greece, about the name of the country, was more or less settled through the appellation of Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia.
