The Albanian National Question And The Myth Of Greater Albania

Author : United States Army War College
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1497498244

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The Albanian National Question and the Myth of Greater Albania by United States Army War College Pdf

In order to know what the Albanian National Question (ANQ) is, one should learn it not from what its neighbors, namely Serbia and Greece, have to say, but from a more direct and reliable source, the voice of the Albanians themselves. No nation is in a position in which it can express in a realistic way the needs, the rights and aspirations of a different nation in the same way as an individual cannot be an exact representative for someone but himself. For many years the Western countries used to rely on either Serbian or Greek lenses for the ANQ. In the late 1990s the U.S.-led intervention against Serbia over Kosova on humanitarian grounds and the Albanian insurgency in Macedonia has contributed to an altered power balance in the region. The neighbors frightened by the power shift in the Southern Balkans use their propaganda machinery to express the danger posed by the alleged Greater Albania scheme in order to demonize and morally downgrade the ANQ. However, one can easily see that Albanians since the creation of their state have not, are not, and will not pursue an irredentist agenda toward their neighbors.

Author : Paulin Kola
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814747736

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The Myth of Greater Albania by Paulin Kola Pdf

When Kosovar Albanians came to Albania after the fall of Communism, they were surprised to find an impoverished motherland whose people were consumed with questions of basic survival. Albania's citizens, for their part, were dumbstruck by the relatively opulent lifestyles of the Kosovars. Yet despite their profound differences, the myth of a "Greater Albania" persists. In this timely book, Paulin Kola challenges this myth, arguing that there is not widespread support for a "Greater Albania" among the Albanian-speaking peoples. He shows that Albanians do not wish to join a single, politically recognized entity and demonstrates how the Albanians are marked by ideological, religious, and other divisions. While a "Greater Kosovo" remains a remote possibility, there is little chance of the Albanians of either Albania or the diaspora supporting moves to dissolve the present international borders in pursuit of an "Albanian homeland." Albanians appear content to retain their discrete political entities, while traveling and trading freely. Accessible and urgent, this book effectively puts to rest the cherished myths of Albanian nationalism.

Author : Paulin Kola
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056312484

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The Search for Greater Albania by Paulin Kola Pdf

In this topical text Paulin Kola challenges the accepted notion that there is widespread support for a Greater Albania among the Albanian-speaking peoples of the Balkans, and argues that Albanians do not wish to join a single, politically-recognized entity. He explains how the Albanians are marked by ideological, religious and other divisions, many of which were exacerbated by their differing reactions to nationalism, as experienced in Tito's Yugoslavia and Hoxha's Albania.

Author : Jovan M. Čanak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Albania
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115078904

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"Greater Albania" by Jovan M. Čanak Pdf

Author : Mirada Vickers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190993092X

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Albanian Nationalism After the Cold War by Mirada Vickers Pdf

Author : Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers,Bernd Jürgen Fischer
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Albania
ISBN : 1850655723

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Albanian Identities by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers,Bernd Jürgen Fischer Pdf

The contributors to this study critically de-construct Albanian myths and offer insights into Albanian history and politics. They conclude with contemporary Albanian critiques of the origins and functions of Albanian politics and ideologies.

Author : Pinar Yürür,Arda Özkan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498599207

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Conflict Areas in the Balkans by Pinar Yürür,Arda Özkan Pdf

The situation in the Balkans, such as the solution to the status of Kosovo, is currently the largest international political problem in Europe, with the potential to burst into a world crisis regarding the Eastern - Western relations. On the other hand, a successful solution to the problem in the Balkans could serve as a model for solving the Muslim - Christian tensions elsewhere in the world. It is the intention of this book to contribute proposals for solutions to the problems of Balkans. The starting principle for the solutions to be effective is that they should come in a natural way from the people below and should not be enforced by the political elites from above. Based on self-determination of nations as a starting principle, they should encourage intra-regional cooperation among the regional entities (economic, cultural, sport, as a basis for political, social understanding and cooperation); secondly, accelerate their economic, political and social development and thirdly, as a final step enable the inclusion of the Balkan countries into the European Union.

Author : Valentin Mihaylov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781040008690

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Bulgarian Geopolitics in a Balkan Context by Valentin Mihaylov Pdf

This book is about the geographic space as an inseparable component of a nation’s historical memory, territorial awareness, geopolitical visions, and obsessions. The empirical part of the book focuses on the critical analysis of first-hand sources containing representations of the imagined spaces and places of Bulgaria and Bulgarians from a long-term perspective. The research results are structured in accordance with the author’s model of an imagined national space. It contains three general domains: possessed national space, the ethnogeopolitical neighbourhood, and ancient and legendary spaces. The book also explores how Bulgarians’ historical and ethnic spaces are linked with specific geopolitics, such as passive internal geopolitics, soft revisionism, non-intervening geopolitical claims, blocking international integration as a disguised form of old territorial claims, and emerging historical geopolitics. It examines how the imagined national space is approached by statesmen, politicians, academics, and other creators of ‘high’ geopolitics. The book also pays attention to the role of spatial imaginations in growing ‘low’ (popular) geopolitics, which includes media, popular culture, and national mythology. Written in an interdisciplinary manner, this timely book will attract the interest of scholars and students in geopolitics, human geography, international relations, nationalism studies, and ethnic history.

Author : John R. Lampe,Mark Mazower
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155053856

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Ideologies and National Identities by John R. Lampe,Mark Mazower Pdf

Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century. A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature were brought together for this undertaking. The studies invite attention to fascism, socialism, and liberalism as well as nationalism and Communism. While most chapters deal with war and confrontation, they focus rather on the remembrance of such conflicts in shaping today's ideology and national identity.

Author : Miranda Vickers,James Pettifer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814788059

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Albania by Miranda Vickers,James Pettifer Pdf

WITH A NEW POSTSCRIPT Situated between Greece on the south, the former Yugoslavia on the north and east, and the Adriatic Sea on the west, Albania is the country the world forgot. Throughout this century, Albania has been perceived as primitive and isolationist by its neighbors to the west. When the country ended fifty years of communist rule in 1992, few outsiders took interest. Deemed unworthy of membership in the European Union and overlooked by multinational corporations, Albania stands today as one of the poorest and most ignored countries in Europe. Miranda Vickers and James Pettifer take us behind the veil of former President Enver Hoxha's isolationist policies to examine the historic events leading up to Albania's transition to a parliamentary government. Beginning with Hoxha's death in 1985, Albania traces the last decade of Albania's shaky existence, from the anarchy and chaos of the early nineties to the victory of the Democratic Alliance in 1992 and the programs of the current government. The authors provide us with an analysis of how the moral, religious, economic, political and cultural identity of the Albanian people is being redefined, and leave no question that the future of Albania is inextricably linked to the future of the Balkans as a whole. In short, they tell us why Albania matters.

Author : Noel Malcolm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192599230

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Rebels, Believers, Survivors by Noel Malcolm Pdf

Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have been a meeting-ground of Christianity and Islam; a channel through which Venice connected with the Ottoman Balkans; a place of interest to the Habsburgs; and a focus for the ambitions of neighbouring powers in the late Ottoman period. Albanians themselves could have many different identities. The studies in this volume, by one of the world's leading experts on Albanian history, range from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, taking in politics, social history, religion and diplomacy. Each is based on original research; the longest, on Ali Pasha, uses a wealth of manuscript material to tell, for the first time, the full story of the vital role he played in the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars. Other studies bring to life ordinary individuals hitherto unknown to history: women hauled before the Inquisition, for example, or the author of the first Albanian autobiography. Some of these studies have been printed before (several in hard-to-find publications, and one only in Albanian), but the greater part of this book appears here for the first time. This is not only a landmark publication for readers interested in south-east European history. It also engages with many broader issues, including religious conversion, 'crypto-Christianity' among Muslims, methods of enslavement within the Ottoman Empire, and the nature of modern myth-making about national identity.

Author : International Crisis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396932843

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PAN-ALBANIANISM: HOW BIG A THREAT TO BALKAN STABILITY?. by International Crisis Group Pdf

Author : Tim Judah
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300097255

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Kosovo by Tim Judah Pdf

Om det spændte forhold mellem albanere og serbere i Kosovo, som har eksisteret siden middelalderen, og som til sidst førte til NATOs bombardement og Kosovos forvandling fra serbisk provins til internationalt protektorat

Author : Fred Abrahams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479896684

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Modern Albania by Fred Abrahams Pdf

In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe’s most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read “decadent” Western literature began to devour the outside world. They opened cafés, companies, and newspapers. Previously banned rock music blared in the streets. Modern Albania offers a vivid history of the Albanian Communist regime’s fall and the trials and tribulations that led the country to become the state it is today. The book provides an in-depth look at the Communists' last Politburo meetings and the first student revolts, the fall of the Stalinist regime, the outflows of refugees, the crash of the massive pyramid-loan schemes, the war in neighboring Kosovo, and Albania’s relationship with the United States. Fred Abrahams weaves together personal experience from more than twenty years of work in Albania, interviews with key Albanians and foreigners who played a role in the country’s politics since 1990—including former Politburo members, opposition leaders, intelligence agents, diplomats, and founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army—and a close examination of hundreds of previously secret government records from Albania and the United States. A rich, narratively-driven account, Modern Albania gives readers a front-row seat to the dramatic events of the last battle of Cold War Europe.

Author : Eno Koço
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527571891

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Albanian Identity in History and Traditional Performance by Eno Koço Pdf

This book represents a group of individual musical essays collected under common Albanian themes, with a particular focus on historical identities and traditional musical performance. It shows that, at the beginning of the 18th century, there was a growing interest in representing the Albanian hero Scanderbeg on the operatic stage, as some well-known composers of baroque music began to place a greater emphasis on music’s dramatic power to elicit emotional response. The book also notes that this sense of drama was also incorporated into the vocal forms such as opera.