...Michael B. Bishku This essay reviews and analyzes Albania’s connections with the Middle East since the era of Enver Hoxha’s rule, when ideology was a strong factor in international relations. Since the end of the Cold War, Albania has been most interested in developing political, economic...

...David Binder It took twenty-seven years and the ending of the Cold War for former New York Times correspondent David Binder to obtain permission to enter Communist Albania. Once there, in 1990, the author was introduced to both suspicion and traditionally warm hospitality. He found Albania...

...Ilir Gjoni Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Ilir Gjoni is the former minister of the interior of Albania. MQ 13.3-04 Gjoni 7/25/02 2:44 PM Page 33 Cleansing the Augean Stables: Corruption in Albania Disrupts Democratic...

...Fatos Nano Fatos Nano is prime minister of Albania. Mediterranean Affairs,Inc. 2004 Albania, the Balkans, and the Process of Transatlantic Integration Fatos Nano In this essay I discuss contemporary Albania and the critical role...

...Fatos Tarifa 2005 Fatos Tarifa is the former ambassador of Albania to the United States. The Adriatic Europe: Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia Fatos Tarifa Since the end of World War II, and especially after the death...

...Fatos Tarifa; Peter Lucas Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Fatos Tarifa is former ambassador of Albania to the United States. He is the author of The Quest for Legitimacy and the Withering Away of Utopia and The Balkans: A Mission neither Accomplished nor Impossible . Peter Lucas...

... and Relations with Albania Joseph M. Codispoti Italians and Albanians have shared at least informal relations since the beginnings of the modern Italian state in the 1860s and more formal rela- tions since the founding of the Albanian...

...Tomáš Vlček; Martin Jirušek Albania is a small country in the Western Balkans whose role in international politics throughout history has been minor, mainly due to its size, low economic potential, and the legacy of the Stalinist isolationist regime that was in place during the Cold War era...

...Nikolaos A. Stavrou Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 Nikolaos A. Stavrou is professor emeritus of international affairs at Howard University. Searching for a Brother Lost in Albania’s Gulag Nikolaos A. Stavrou The history of the Cold...

... stability nor justice to the Balkans. Instead, the United States and NATO have foolishly empowered the main disruptive faction. The principal source of turmoil was never Serbian expansionism. It was—and remains—the drive by Albanian nationalists to create a Greater Albania, which would encompass sizable...

... of Albania and decided to rid himself of a perennial annoyance.1 The king was always in need of “loans” that Mussolini knew would never be repaid and was increasingly behaving as an impediment to the Duce’s Balkan schemes. Money was an essential commodity...

...Helen Abadzi Since the nineteenth century, Greece and Albania have been separate countries, but for about twenty-two centuries they belonged to the same state in its various forms. The ancient Greeks and Illyrians were Indo-European tribes who intermarried with pre-Hellenic populations after...

... on civility, legality, and order has hardly affected their main target, the United States, but has placed emerging nations and fragile democracies, like Albania, in a precar- ious situation. No sooner did we free ourselves from fifty years of totalitari- anism than we were forced to expend resources...

... Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina and could complicate the still unresolved process of state building in Albania itself. Third, in a province so weak economically and so poorly developed institution- ally, the infl uence of organized crime or terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda would...

... In the second half of the nineteenth century, more than three-quarters of a million Albanians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Residing in Albania proper, in the western departments of the Macedonian provinces (vilayets) of Monastir, Kosovo, and Epirus, the Albanian people were divided into Chris...

... Riparian southern Riparian northern Mediterranean and eastern Mediterranean EU: 9 states Non-­EU: 4 states 12 states (13 chambers) (5 chambers) (17 chambers) Croatia Albania Algeria (2) Cyprus Bosnia-­Herzegovina (2) Egypt (2) France...

.... Croatia and Albania signed accession agreements with NATO in July 2008. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) would like to follow but has long been blocked by Greece, which disputes its right to the name Macedonia. Along with Croatia, Albania, and Montenegro, it is classed...

... an ethnically pure Greater Albania. And their territorial ambitions are breathtakingly extensive. Their concept of Greater Albania includes not only Kosovo and Albania but large portions of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Greece. Unfortunately, because of the myopic policies pursued by the United...

..., apparently adopting the view that the boundaries of this newly minted state must be considered sacrosanct.21 An independent Kosovo is likely to exacerbate problems with several neighboring countries. There is scant evidence that advocates of a “Greater Albania” have relinquished their territorial...

... ten to twelve years, a close look at the small country and its immediate neighborhood reveals that the situation remains fragile. Its internal economic and demo- graphic problems are compounded by the problems FYROM has with its five neighbors: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, and Serbia...