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Albanian Nationalism after the Cold War - Selected Writings (Paperback)
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Albanian Nationalism after the Cold War - Selected Writings (Paperback)
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For nearly fifty years after the end of the Second World War,
Albania remained in almost total isolation from the rest of the
world. The hard-line communist dictatorship sealed the tiny
country's borders in an effort to preserve Albania and the ruling
regime from the threat posed by Western Powers and from
neighbouring countries and their territorial ambitions. When the
communist regime finally collapsed in 1992, Albania emerged into a
Balkans ravaged by civil war in neighbouring Yugoslavia, which
spread into the regions bordering Albania inhabited by significant
ethnic Albanian minorities. As the war ignited in Kosova, tens of
thousands of Albanian refugees fled into Albania, which itself was
suffering violent internal conflict. Albania had entered the
post-communist world in an impoverished and broken state, immersed
in civil strife between the new quasi-democratic government and the
opposition socialists, which culminated into virtual civil war in
1997 that pitted northerners against southerners with more than
4,000 deaths. Amidst the chaos, the disintegration of Yugoslavia
ignited a new Albanian national question that had lain dormant
since 1945. There were calls for the creation of a 'Greater
Albania' to incorporate Yugoslavia's Albanian minorities within the
'Mother' state, which was to also include an area of north-western
Greece which had historically been inhabited by ethnic Albanians
known as Chams. The Chams were forced to leave their homeland
following three distinct phases: the first during the Balkans Wars
1912-14; the second resulting from the Greek-Turkish population
exchanges in the 1920s; the third at the end of the Second World
War. The calls for a 'Greater Albania' alarmed Albania's neighbours
and the international community, who viewed it as a serious threat
to the stability of the entire southern Balkans. This resurgence of
pan-Albanian nationalism was, however, far more layered and complex
than was understood at the time, even by the various ethnic
Albanian groups and their vocal Diaspora. This collection of papers
and essays has not previously been published outside select
academic outlets. They appear here for the first time with the aim
of offering new perspectives on the underlying nature of
pan-Albanianism, its aspirations and the post-Cold War dynamics of
the Albanian world. These remain serious, unresolved problems in
the region at the present time.
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