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Inappropriate Analogy for Greece-Macedonia Name Dispute

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Citizen Media, Human Rights, Ideas, Politics, War & Conflict

Responding to an assertion [1] by Gerald Knaus…

Athens and Skopje face a [prisoner's dilemma [2]]: if neither side believes that a solution is possible, and acts on this, both will lose.

Zarko Trajanoski [3] wrote on Facebook:

However, the analogy with “prisoner's dilemma” is not only false, but very offensive: Athens is not a prisoner, but a prison guard and perhaps a political torturer in this case. And the outcome of this political torture, aided by Sofia as well, is the rise of the Macedonian ethno-nationalism and the decline of the liberalism, democracy and human rights.

He later provided an elaborate explanation in a blog post [4] [mk [5]].