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...Andrew C. Danopoulos; Constantine P. Danopoulos Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Andrew C. Danopoulos is an honors graduate in economics and sociology from the University of California–Davis. Constantine P. Danopoulos teaches political science at San Jose State University. Albanian...

...Christophoros Psilos Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Christophoros Psilos is a research fellow at the Hellenic Defense Analyses Institute Athens. Albanian Nationalism and Unionist Ottomanization, 1908 to 1912 Christophoros Psilos...

... of the graduate program in international relations at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. The Face of Kosovar Albanian Nationalism: A Violent and Volatile Transformation of the Balkan Political Landscape Donald A. Graczyk and Symeon A. Giannakos...

... arriving in the Balkans about four thousand years ago. Multiple migration events occurred to and from one another's lands; in ancient years Greek cities like Corinth established colonies on the Illyrian coast, while in the Middle Ages Albanian speakers (known as Arvanites) migrated across Greece. Hundreds...

...Nikolaos A. Stavrou Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2001 Nikolaos A. Stavrou is professor of international affairs at Howard University and editor of Mediterranean Quarterly . MQ 12.2-06 Stavrou 5/8/01 10:36 AM Page 66 Pages from Albanian History...

... Army] and underworld bosses.3 The result for non-Albanian ethnic communities in Kosovo has been both tragic and catastrophic. Far from becoming a tolerant society where different ethnic groups are guaranteed their full human and civil rights, it remained a society of injustice, as Amnesty...

... of Kosovo, there has been a massive reverse ethnic cleansing as Albanian nationalists have driven nearly 90 percent of the province’s non- Albanian people from their homes. And now the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and its offshoot—Macedonia’s National Liberation Army (NLA)— have expanded armed conflict...

... also include the prob- lems FYROM is having with its Albanian minority and the Albanians’ nationalist attitude derived from their age-­old dreams for an independent state of their own, or for union with Albania and Kosovo to form a “Greater Albania.” Greece...

... 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...

... in Kosovo, has been to set back if not to quash the commonly shared plans of the often warring factions of the Albanian majority to create an independent Kosovo state. In Montenegro the David Binder is a retired Washington, D.C.–based correspondent for the New York...

... be implemented for the benefit of both Albania and southeastern Europe. In recent years, the economic situation has been improving. In terms of the energy sector, several regional projects for the supply of oil and natural gas have made use of Albanian territory and its infrastructure. These proj- ects...

..., Albanians had adopted a Latin alphabet, something not done until 1928 by the Republic of Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, whose President Kemal Ataturk (1923 – 38) had expressed his country’s affinity with Europe. Nevertheless, Turkey made greater progress in development during...

... impoverished, as it had been throughout its history, but also rich in talented and thoughtful people. Images of Stalin and of Enver Hoxha, Stalin's Albanian imitator, were still omnipresent. “We are a terrorized people,” one student commented. Rebellion was in the air. Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs...

... by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 48  Mediterranean Quarterly: Spring 2008 the most heroic figures of modern Greek history.” The honored soldier was my brother Grigorios, a member of the Greek intelligence service, who was betrayed, caught, tortured, tried, and executed by the Albanian Sigurimi on 18 August...

... 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...

... the balanced and fair peace accords that our allies and partners, including Russia, proposed last month, a peace agreement that Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians courageously accepted. Instead, his forces have intensified their attacks, burning down Kosovar...

... of what I and so many of my col- leagues—Albanians, Serbs, Ashkalije, and many diverse members of the international community in Kosovo—had tried so hard to create. The violence started in Mitrovica and spread rapidly to other communi- ties. In Vushtrri, where I spent some thirty-nine months...

....” Applied to the Balkans in coming decades the ethnic Albanians now living in at least five Balkan states and the ethnic Serbs living in five states, as well, are developing growing kinship with their fellow nationals beyond the current frontiers and local allegiances that currently separate them...

..., Macedonia has yet to obtain full interna- tional recognition of its constitutional name from neighbors such as Greece and in world bodies such as the UN and NATO. Almost seven years after the Ohrid Accords were signed, Albanian politicians claim that key aspects of the accords still have not been...

...? Pas Encore William H. Lewis In a remarkable address to ethnic Albanian Kosovar refugees while visiting Macedonia in June 1999, President Clinton sought to link the national inter- est of the United States with human...