Eugene N. Borza

Like Ernst Badian and Peter Green, (sometimes grouped together as Badian-Green-Borza)[3] Borza doubted the theory that the ancient Macedonians had Hellenic roots.

"[4] [7] Borza did not believe that modern political nation-states in the Balkans (e.g. Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria) could establish "cultural continuity" with ancient Macedonia, and he dismissed any notion of there being a genetic link between modern-day Balkan nations and the ancient Macedonian people, dismissing "genetic purity" as "pure fantasy."

It was his view that any alleged link to the ancient Macedonian kingdom was a product of regional political factors, not genetic or cultural.

At the same time, Borza also believed that contemporary Macedonian ethnicity came about not as an "invention" of Tito or the Communist party of Yugoslavia but rather as a result of a natural and organic process of "nation-building".

It had begun in the late nineteenth century as an offshoot of the joint Macedonian and Bulgarian struggle against Hellenization and reached it "culmination" under Tito's policies after WWII.