ISSUE: 1/2021
- Volume 25
- Number 1
- 2021
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Studia Europejskie –
Studies in European Affairs
ISSN: 1428-149X
e-ISSN: 2719-3780
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Constitutional – Legal Engineering of the Model of Democracy in North Macedonia
Abstract
This thesis is a critical analysis of the constitutional and legal order of the Republic of North Macedonia, following the chronological process dating from the gaining of the county’s independence, through the armed conflict in 2001 that brought constitutional changes, to today. The first decade after the breakup of Yugoslavia was crucial for the North Macedonian state and its citizens. The writing/creation of the constitution of the new, independent state was not an easy process and it did not pass peacefully nor did it pass without any problems. The complex social process and relations have initiated the need for amendments to the Constitution, which, since its adoption in 1991 until today, has been changed 32 times in order to adapt to new, emerging situations and to give constitutional and legal responses to the inherent challenges. Of course, proper changes also occurred in the political system itself as a result of numerous factors, which have more or less influenced its character and shape.
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DOI: 10.33067/SE.1.2021.7
Language: English
Pages: 147-167
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Kuqi, D. (2021) "Constitutional – Legal Engineering of the Model of Democracy in North Macedonia". Studia Europejskie – Studies in European Affairs, 1/2021, pp. 147-167. DOI: 10.33067/SE.1.2021.7