Behind the scenes on the Macedonian issue

Greek governments, from Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1990-03) to Antonis Samaras (2012-15), followed an ineffective secret diplomacy, while accepting, without admitting it, a double (or triple) name for what was then the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), with the word "Macedonia" included in every iteration.

At least that's what former foreign minister (2015-19) Nikos Kotzias claims in his book "The Logic of the Solution: Political Theory and Practice in International Relations - Truths about the Macedonian Issue and the Negotiations," to be published this week by Gutenberg. The former minister and architect of the Prespes Agreement uses classified cables and other Foreign Ministry documents to back up his argument, accusing all political parties of the 1990s of "inadequate theoretical background, limited grasp of geopolitical developments and lack of intellectual...