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Author : Samantha Williams
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Albanians
ISBN :
Examines the Albanian populations of Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Albania.
Author : Miranda Vickers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857710249
Kosovo's declaration of independence in 2008 - and the overt manipulation of this precedent by Russia in its war with Georgia and South Ossetia shortly afterwards - has focused the world's attention once again on the Balkans. But Albania's role within the region remains little known and less understood. In this revised edition of a major work of contemporary history, two well-known and internationally-respected authorities elucidate Albania's place in the Balkans, from the explosion of violence in the 1990s, which brought the country to the brink of civil war, to the present day. Since 1997, the Albanian region has been forced simultaneously to come to terms with the realities of a post-Communist world and the threat of Slobodan Milosevic's 'Greater Serbia' project. Its people, the authors, argue are involved in the process of national self-emancipation: the re-establishment of free markets and ending of Communist border controls have renewed long dormant cultural and economic links between the Albanian people and the wider region. The future of the Albanians in the Balkans is the most pressing issue in the region today, a fact which the West must pay close heed to if this long neglected nation is to become a European partner. Indeed, the authors argue, in this rapidly evolving political climate, failure to come to terms with the importance of the Albanian question could return the region as a whole to armed conflict.
Author : Miranda Vickers
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814788059
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 : Miranda Vickers
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Albanians
ISBN :
This history of the contradictory aims and interests of Kosovo's two peoples, the Serbs and the Albanians, focuses on the underlying social and cultural factors affecting the conflict.
Author : Miranda Vickers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0857736558
This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-party elections and the upheaval that followed the March 1997 uprising. Miranda Vickers traces the history of the Albanian people from the Ottoman period to the formation of the Albanian Communist Party. She considers the charismatic leadership of Enver Hoxha; Albania's relationship with Tito and the alliance with the Soviet Union and then China; and the long period of isolation. Newly revised for this paperback edition, The Albanians considers the gradual process of reform and the fragility of the Albanian experiment with democracy, and includes a dramatic account of the days leading up to Sali Berisha's resignation of the presidency. It has now been updated to cover the crisis in Kosovo that has led to the first 'Western' war in Europe since 1945.
Author : William Milligan Sloane
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN :
Author : Edwin E. Jacques
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : History
ISBN :
Many Albanians, who are descended from the Illyrians and Pelasgians, trace their roots to Achilles and other heroes of the siege of Troy, and claim Alexander the Great as their own. During twelve consecutive periods of foreign domination, the ethnic identity of the Albanians has been constantly threatened, first by the Eastern and Western empires of Christendom, then by the Ottoman Turks, and most recently by Soviet and Chinese communists.
Author : Thanos Veremēs
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Paulin Kola
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
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 : Neil Olsen
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780855984328
This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries such as Albania, and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs and maps the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic and environmental issues have on their lives.