Word: macedonia
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...Balkans: B Early slips have been quickly corrected, and the world informed that the U.S. has no plans to leave any time soon. Still, don't expect any muscle-flexing. Reluctant engagement in Balkan peacekeeping could become a policy crisis point, however, if Macedonia blows up. To be fair, once again, this is a quagmire bequeathed by Clinton and Albright...
TIME.com: Macedonia's political parties appear to have agreed on changes to improve the status of the country's Albanian community, and Western mediators seem very optimistic that this will avert the civil war that has been looming for months. Is their optimism shared on the ground...
...ethnic-Albanian community has been represented in the talks by the political parties that had participated in Macedonia's parliamentary system, rather than by the guerrillas who had rejected their moderation and taken up arms. But the agreement requires that those guerrillas disband and hand over their weapons. How will they be persuaded to accept the deal...
...Many observers of the conflict have expressed doubt that the rebels were simply fighting for constitutional reforms in Macedonia, suggesting instead that they were trying to take control of a piece of the country in order to join it to a "Greater Albania." Presumably, then, this agreement will be a real test of the guerrillas' intentions...
...Macedonia was one of the poorest countries in Europe to start off with, and the war has made it worse. People have been grumbling that the government sold off its telecommunications company, but all the money from that privatization has now gone to the war effort. So the country is in a bad way economically, and cementing any peace may depend in large part on a package of economic...