POLITICAL THOUGHT YEAR 14, NO 52, DECEMBER, SKOPJE 2016 POLITICAL ELITES, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL CHANGES Publisher: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Republic of Macedonia Institutefor Democarcy “Societas Civilis”, Skopje Founders: Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, Andreas Klein M.A. Politička misla - Editorial Board: Johannes D. Rey Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany Nenad Marković Institute for Democarcy “Societas Civilis”, Political Science Department, Faculty of Law “Iustinianus I”, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Ivan Damjanovski Institute for Democarcy “Societas Civilis”, Political Science Department, Faculty of Law “Iustinianus I”, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Hans-Rimbert Hemmer Emeritus professor of economics, Germany Claire Gordon London School of Economy and Political Science, England Robert Hislope Political Science Department, Union College, USA Ana Matan-Todorcevska Faculty of political science, Zagreb University, Croatia Predrag Cvetičanin University of Niš, Republic of Serbia Vladimir Misev OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Poland Sandra Koljačkova Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Republic of Macedonia Address: KONRAD-ADENAUER-STIFTUNG ul. Risto Ravanovski 8 MK - 1000 Skopje Phone: 02 3217 075; Fax: 02 3217 076 ; E-mail: [email protected]; Internet: www.kas.de INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY “SOCIETAS CIVILIS” SKOPJE Mitropolit Teodosij Gologanov 42A/3 MK - 1000 Skopje; Phone/ Fax: 02 30 94 760; E-mail: [email protected]; Internet: www.idscs.org.mk E-mail: [email protected] Printing: Vincent grafika - Skopje Cover page design: Gjorgie Jovanoviќ Design & Technical preparation: Pepi Damjanovski Translation: Ognena Nikuljski Macedonian Language Editor: Elena Sazdovska English Language Editor: Susannah Haven Hightower The views expressed in the magazine are not the views of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” Skopje. They are personal views of the authors. The publisher is not liable for any translation errors. The magazine is published 2 times a year and it is distributed to political subjects, state institutions, universities, and foreign representatives in the Republic of Macedonia. Year 14, No 52, December Skopje 2016 ISSN 1409-9853 Contents 9 BETWEEN CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND NEO-ORTHODOXY – TRANSFORMATIONS, IDENTITIES AND CHALLENGES OF POLITICAL ELITES IN CONTEMPORARY GREECE Ljuben Tevdovski 37 PLURALISM IN THE POLITICAL PROCESSES OF STATES AND SHARED COMMUNITIES Veton Latifi 51 MACEDONIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC ISSUES (1991-2015) IvankaDodovska 69 THE FORGOTTEN IDEALS: MANIFESTATIONS OF ELITISM AND PAROCHIALISM IN THE EUROPEAN UNION CONTEXT Goran Ilik 81 PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OR MANIPULATION OF ELITES Vladimir Bozinovski 93 KURDS IN TURKEY –ON THE NATURE AND CHALLENGES OF AN ETHNIC, SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICT Irena Rajchinovska Pandeva Introduction Dear readers, You have in your hands the fifty second issue of the journal “Political Thought” published, as up to now, through the collaboration of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation with the Societas Civilis Institute for Democracy from Skopje. Our regular readers will immediately notice that this issue has been changed in many aspects compared to the previous issues of the journal. To begin with, the visual aspect of the journal has been improved with the aim of making it visually more agreeable for our readers. Even though the changes are not major compared to the previous issues, the Editorial Board of the journal wanted to offer a more bracing and better visual aspect, this being the first thing that every reader notices. As for the Editorial Board of this issue, it has undergone a fundamental change, initiated by the dynamics of topics and scope that the magazine wants to have in the future.In this sense, some of the Editorial Board of the journal has remained the same, but some have been changed. With gratitude to those who have participated in the Editorial Board of the journal, the director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the representatives of the Societas Civilis Institute for Democracyof Skopje thought slight refreshment in the composition of the Editorial Board must be introduced. Prominent figures in the field of political sciences of the country, the region and from Europe and the USA were contacted. With great pleasure we would like to announce that experts and academics who were offered a place in the Editorial Board accepted our offer and in the future will take major decisions not only about the acceptance of the texts and the structure of the journal, but also on finding experts and academics in the field of social sciences that will permanently cooperate with "Political Thought" in improving the already received texts. The existing team of experts and professors who are working on the improvement and revision of the texts remains, and its expansion goes towards covering as many topics and academic areas as possible related in one way or another to the topics of political science, this continuing to be the basis of the journal. In this issue the Editorial Board decided to make a big step forward regarding the journal which will now be formatted following the pattern of the best academic and analytical journals in the field of social sciences. Namely, instead of thematic numbers, “Political Thought” opens to a format that will not have such limitation, but intends to address topics that are current at the moment in political theory, social events or related fields. This means that the next issues will not have a striking theme around which the texts would gravitate, but each author would be contributing to a topic in any area that is prevalent at the time the issue of the magazine is published. This in no way means that the editorial board of “Political Thought” will not initiate extraordinary thematic numbers, but it will be solely guided by the relevance of a particular topic that may need to be accessed from different aspects. This format entails a change in the frequency of publishing the journal. Given its open format, the editorial board considered that the number of publications should be reduced and streamlined from four to two issues a year. Two issues are enough to cover all desired topics without the contents becoming repetitive and too detailed, yet without an essential contribution to a particular topic. Along with this change, the Editorial Board of “Political Thought” introduces a novelty which should greatly enhance the quality of the journal, seriously raising the academic standards in the area that “Political Thought”covers, and it is most certainly the area of political and related social sciences. The process of receiving texts and their revision is reinforced in the direction of the famous "double blind" model of double revision of texts by two different experts in order to avoid bias and increase the quality of the received texts, both in content and structure. In this regard the Editorial Board wishes to point out that in the future the number of purely theoretical texts will decrease on behalf of texts containing specific case studies and analytical contents. This aims to promote “Political Thought” as a journal that offers not only more practical but also more applicable content for an audience that covers a large target group, ranging fromthe Academy, the politicians and the NGO activists, representatives of the international community and diplomatic corps in the country and abroad, to students in the areas covered by the journal. The rule from the previous format remains that an author cannot publish several times in the course of a year but only as an exception, i.e., at the invitation of the editorial board of “Political Thought”. In this issue “Political Thought” offers a colorful range of topics from different fields of political science and related sciences. The fifty-second issue of “Political Thought” covers topics of identity policies arising from the approach to archeology as a science, liberal theory, diplomacy, international relations and organizations, public opinion and the theory of conflict resolution. Each of these topics, through mostly original and review scientific articles, provides specific views of particular subjects. The authors in this issue are established domestic names from the academic community with whom “Political Thought”has been cooperating for some time now and who more than deserve to be presented in this issue. Thanking them for their contribution to the new format of the journal, the new Editorial Board of “Political Thought” thanks mostly its faithful readers who continue to follow us, a fidelity that “Political Thought” will reward not only with greater relevance of topics but also by constantly raising the quality of the journal. Furthermore we would like to take the opportunity and invite all alert readers to share with us their views, comments or suggestions by contacting us directly to our email address: [email protected] or [email protected]. Sincerely, Johannes D. Rey, KAS Prof. Dr. Nenad Markovic, IDSCS Short Biography Ambassador Ljuben Tevdovski is international expert, lecturer, diplomat, archaeologist and cultural policy advisor with almost two decades of experience on leading positions in educational, scientific and governmental institutions and nongovernmental organizations. His core fields of expertise incorporate anthropology, theory and history of archaeology and classical archaeology. His research and analyses