“Environmental Agenda” in recent political history Republic of North Macedonia (1990s – 2020s)
https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2022-27-1-300-312
Abstract
The place of the environmental agenda in the general logic of the political process of the Republic of North Macedonia is analyzed. The genesis of the environmental agenda in Macedonian politics, its development in the public rhetoric of the establishment and the activities of political parties are revealed. The influence of political conjuncture, disposition and arrangement of political subjects on the relevance of the environmental factor in Macedonian politics and sociopolitical processes is shown. The algorithm of the impact of the environmental agenda on the change of power in the country is demonstrated. The procedures for the pressure of opposition forces on the state at different stages of the country’s recent political history are detailed. Specific scenarios of transformation of the environmental agenda into a political one are described. A detailed description of the emergence and activity of environmental movements and parties, as well as electoral declarations of leading political parties on environmental issues are given. An explanatory model of the influence of the environmental agenda on the pendulum nature of the change of power in the country is created. A forecast is made for the prospect of preserving the environmental agenda in political and social discourse. The factor of international influence on the activation of the environmental factor in Macedonian political life is established. It is understood which political forces of Northern Macedonia and beyond benefit from maintaining the presence of the environmental theme in the political space.
About the Authors
Y. Mitrevska
International Slavonic University “Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin”
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
Yagoda Mitrevska, Candidate of Political Sciences, Professor of the Philosophy and Politics Department
16 Novachki pat St., Bitola 7000, Republic of North Macedonia
D. G. Seltser
Derzhavin Tambov State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitrii G. Seltser, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Professor of the International Relations and Political Science Department
33 Internatsionalnaya St., Tambov 392000
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Mitrevska Y., Seltser D.G. “Environmental Agenda” in recent political history Republic of North Macedonia (1990s – 2020s). Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities. 2022;22(1):300-312. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2022-27-1-300-312
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