BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF AUTHORS Evangelos Kofos is currently Special Adviser on Balkan affairs at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens and member of the Scientific Committee of KEMIT (Thessaloniki). In 1995, he was appointed Visiting Fellow on Greek Studies at Brasenose College, Oxford. Prior to this, he served for many years at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Special Consultant on Balkan Affairs with the rank of ambas- sador. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Birkbeck College, University of London, and an M.A. in International Relations from Georgetown University, Washington D.C. He is the author of a considerable number of books and essays on Greek and Balkan issues. Two of his books (Greece and the Eastern Crisis, 1875-1878, and The History of the Macedonian Question [in Greek],) have received Academy of Athens awards. In 1999 the President of the Hellenic Republic awarded him with the Golden Cross of the Order of Phoenix. Haralambos Kondonis is an Acting Director - Expert in Working Table I on Democratisation and Human Rights at the Stability Pact for S/E Europe Secretariat, in Brussels. Within the Pact, he focuses on issues of cross-border co-operation for consistency reasons, local democracy, inter-ethnic relations and education in S/E Europe. In addition, he is currently a Research 352 Athens-Skopje: An Uneasy Symbiosis Fellow at the Greek Diplomatic Academy, Research Associate at ELIAMEP in Athens, and Senior Research Fellow at the South East European Research Centre of Sheffield University. He is also member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) in The Hague. Before joining the Pact, he worked as Special Advisor at the Greek Foreign Ministry’s Department of Hellenic Aid, was a member of the Balkan Task Force of the Greek Foreign Ministry, a Special Advisor to the Chairman of SP-WT I, and a Humanitarian Officer in the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje. As advisor and observer, he has participated in 26 OSCE/ODIHR election missions in Eastern Europe, South East Europe and the Caucasus. Previously, he was a Research Assistant at the London School of Economics. He has published numerous academic articles in journals and books in UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece. He studied International Relations (LSE/ Ph.D.), European Politics (Reading, UK/ M.A.), and Political Science (Athens/ B.A.). Christos Nikas was born and lives in Thessaloniki. He is a graduate of the Economics Department of the Graduate Industrial School of Thessaloniki (now University of Macedonia). His graduate degrees include a Diploma and a Master of Advanced European Studies (College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium) and a Ph.D. in Economics (University of York, U.K.). His studies were supported by scholarships awarded to him by Greek and foreign institutions. He worked as Research Fellow and taught in the U.K. and Greece. He has also held the position of advisor on European issues for the Municipality of Neapolis (Thessaloniki, Greece). He is currently an assistant professor of International Economics and European Economic Integration at the Department of Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia and a visiting professor Biographical Notes 353 at the Economics department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is also a research consultant for the International Organization for Migration. He has specialised in International Economics and European Economic Integration. His current research interests include the economic relations between Greece and the other Balkan countries, migration and the recent economic history of Greece. Despina Syrri was Director of Research at the Immigration Policy Institute in Greece, and has been involved in projects with the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford. She cooperated with the Berlin Migration Netzwerk and the EastWest Institute on issues of cross border cooperation, migration and euroregions. Moreover, she has taught Political Science and Political Anthropology at the American College in Thessaloniki (ACT). Syrri studied Philosophy at the Aristotle University Thessaloniki, and undertook postgraduate studies in Ancient Political Philosophy at the University of Grenoble and Development at the International Relations Institute, Panteion University, Athens. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Sheffield , working on the role of international non-state actors, multi-level governance and borders in SEE. In particular, her research interests include complex emergencies, human rights, conflict resolution, democratization, migration and development; she worked with IOs and NGOs from 1988 to today in Southern Africa, East Europe and South East Europe, as well as election observation missions with the OSCE. She is also a founding member of the Greek NGO Humanitarian Defence, member of the International Council of Museums, member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, and member of the Economic Task Force of the Prespa Cross-Border Region. Has published several articles in both Greek and English. 354 Athens-Skopje: An Uneasy Symbiosis Aristotle Tziampiris is Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Piraeus. He is member of the Scientific Council of the Defense Analysis Institute (IAA—Athens, Greece) and Research Associate at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP—Athens, Greece). He is the author of Greece, European Political Cooperation and the Macedonian Question (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2000), International Relations and the Macedonian Question (Athens: ELIAMEP, 2003—in Greek) and of Kosovo’s Endgame: Sovereignty and Stability in the Western Balkans (forthcoming). He has published a series of essays on international relations and Greek foreign policy in the Balkans. Vlasis Vlasidis is a Lecturer at the Department for Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He has held the position of Head of the Documentation Department of Macedonian Press Agency, and Director of the Research Centre of the Museum for Macedonian Struggle, in Thessaloniki, Greece. He graduated from the History Department of the Philosophy Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. degree from the same department on Contemporary History. He has also been awarded many scholarships. In 2001 he was fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He has published several articles on the history of the Balkans and on the Balkan mass media in academic journals. He is also member of the editorial board of www.macedonian-heritage.gr . Biographical Notes 355 Nikolaos Zaikos is Lecturer of International Law at the Department of Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia, Florina. He is Alternate Member of the United Nations Sub- Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as External Associate at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki. He has taught at the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki), at the Supreme Interdisciplinary War School (Thessaloniki), at the National School of Public Administration and at the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT). His publications in Greek include: The Convention on the Law of Treaties Between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations (1998), The International Law Commission of the United Nations – A Contribution to the Study of the Codification and the Progressive Development of International Law (2002), Introduction to the Law of Diplomatic and Consular Relations (2004), in cooperation with Ms P. Naskou-Perraki. He is also the author of many published articles on issues relating to International Law. INDEX A “Allied Harmony” 78 Academy of Arts and Sciences Alpha Credit Bank 111 (MANU) 242, 245 “Amber Fox” 79 Achilles 159 American College of Thessaloniki 105 Aegean Macedonia [Greek Angelopoulos K.I. 186 Macedonia] 306, 309, 310 Annan Kofi 153 Afganistan 174 Antonovski Zoran 267 Africa 155 Antypas Yannis 186 Agios Germanos 340 Apostolidis Lucas 62 Agora horis Synora 216 Arachinovo 63 Agreement for the Exchange of Archdiocese of Ohrid 197 Classified Military Intelligence 49 Armenians 269 Agreement on a Five-Year Arsovski Ljubco 233 Development Co-operation Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Programme 50 Christodoulos 282, 283 Agreement on Military Cooperation Archbisopric of Ohrid 299, 301, 303 49 Aridaia 199, 336 Agreement on the Participation of Aristotle 159 Greece and FYROM in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Multinational Peace Support 69, 188, 192, 342 Operations Training Centre 49 Asia 302, 307 Ahmeti Ali 250 “Association of Aegean Ajanovski Zlatko 257 Macedonians” 267 Al Qaeda 170 “Association of Child Refugees from Albania 37, 50, 63, 69, 97, 107, 117, the Aegean Part of Macedonia” 167, 171, 205, 206, 279, 287, 305, 268, 269 334, 335, 336, 338, 339 “Association of Exiled Aegean Albanian region 163 Macedonians” 268 Albanians ethnic 17, 156, 171, 203, “Association of Macedonians from 207, 211, 238, 239, 242 the Aegean Part of Macedonia” Alexander I the Philhellene 302 263, 268, 284, 285 Alexander the Great 193, 209, 302, Association for Democracy in the 307 Balkans 322 358 Athens-Skopje: An Uneasy Symbiosis Athanassopoulos Theodoros 263 Black Sea Economic Co-operation Athenian Breweries Co. 111 (BSEC) 43 Athens 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 45, 46, 47, Blagoevgrad 131 48, 56, 58, 59, 64, 65, 69, 75, 80, 86, Bogomils 299 134, 136, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, Boskovski Ljube 64 153, 157, 158, 160, 161, 166, 168, Bosnia-Herzegovina 50, 63, 114, 170, 169, 170, 174, 185, 186, 189, 199, 255 204, 205, 208, 211, 213, 228, 229, Britain 188 230, 231, 232, 235, 244, 245, 248, Brussels 75 273, 278, 284, 317 Bucharest 64 Athens International Airport 266 Bujanovac 162 Athens University see University of Bulgaria 37, 50, 78, 93, 94, 105, 107, Athens 131, 167, 243, 187, 290, 295, 304, Australia 194, 195, 197 305, 308, 334 Autocephalous Macedonian Bulgarians ethnic 132 Orthodox Church 196 Bush George Sr.