Alexis Heraclides is Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens) and author of several books on self-determination, secession, the CSCE, humanitarian intervention, the Middle East conflict, the Cyprus Problem, the Greek-Turkish antagonism with emphasis on the Aegean dispute, the Macedonian Question and others.

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• Preface, 1. Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian Claims to Macedonia; 2. The War of Ethnographic Maps; 3. The VM(O)RO & Other Macedonian Organizations (1893-1940); 4. Tracing the Birth of a Balkan Nation; 5. Tito and the Macedonians; 6. The ‘New Macedonian Question’: The Greek-Macedonian dispute; 7. Bulgaria’s Stance Towards Macedonia; 8. The Macedonian Language; 9. The Macedonian National Historical Narrative; 10. The Charm of Alexander the Great: Who Were the Ancient Macedonians?; 11. The Crux of the Greek-Macedonian Dispute: The Skeletons in the Cupboard; 12. The Settlement of the Greek-Macedonian Dispute: the Prespa Agreement; 13. The Ephemeral Macedonian-Bulgarian Rapprochement; Select Bibliography

Alexis Heraclides is Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens) and author of several books on self-determination, secession, the CSCE, humanitarian intervention, the Middle East conflict, the Cyprus Problem, the Greek-Turkish antagonism with emphasis on the Aegean dispute, the Macedonian Question and others.

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• Preface, 1. Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian Claims to Macedonia; 2. The War of Ethnographic Maps; 3. The VM(O)RO & Other Macedonian Organizations (1893-1940); 4. Tracing the Birth of a Balkan Nation; 5. Tito and the Macedonians; 6. The ‘New Macedonian Question’: The Greek-Macedonian dispute; 7. Bulgaria’s Stance Towards Macedonia; 8. The Macedonian Language; 9. The Macedonian National Historical Narrative; 10. The Charm of Alexander the Great: Who Were the Ancient Macedonians?; 11. The Crux of the Greek-Macedonian Dispute: The Skeletons in the Cupboard; 12. The Settlement of the Greek-Macedonian Dispute: the Prespa Agreement; 13. The Ephemeral Macedonian-Bulgarian Rapprochement; Select Bibliography