The Macedonian Question and Instability in the Balkans

by Professor Andrew Rossos

On March 9, 2003, Andrew Rossos, Professor of History, University of Toronto, spoke on The Macedonian Question and Instability in the Balkans. Professor Rossos' main area of interest is the modern history of East Central Europe and Russia. Over the years, his research interests have ranged from Russian-Balkan relations to Czech historiography, Balkan nationalism and the Macedonian Question. He is the author of Russia and the Balkans: Inter-Balkan Rivalries and Russian Foreign Policy, 1908-1914 (1981). His most recent studies on Macedonian history appeared in The Slavonic and East European Review (1991), in the Slavic Review (1994), in National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe (1995), in The Journal of Modern History (1997), in East European Politics and Societies (2000) and in Yugoslavia and its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s (2003). He is currently preparing a volume, Macedonia and the Macedonians. A History, for the Studies of Nationalities Series, published by the Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University.