The role of the international community in preventing conflicts and establishing peace in North Macedonia

Abstract

This article discusses the role of the international community in preventing conflicts and establishing peace, especially after the Macedonian-Albanian conflict in 2001. This article also reviews the process and aid of North Macedonia’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures. The strong presence of the United States and European Union has been needed to maintain inter-ethnic cohesion in Macedonia. The presence has also worsened the aggravated political situation in the absence of genuine democracy such as the cessation of the Russian and Turkish influences that threatens to turn the country back to the dark past of a perpetual authoritarianism and will guarantee the country a widespread and deserved integration in the great European family to which it belongs.