Notes
This article was prepared in the framework of the project on “Preventing Violent Conflict in Europe”, organized jointly by the IAI, Rome, and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen, and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Use of the name Macedonia is not a political decision in defiance of its UN‐adopted temporary name—Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)—but is dictated solely by practical considerations to circumvent the clumsiness of the acronym.