Albania: how close is Italy? Albanian-Italian relations in the post-cold war environment: managing threats or opportunities?

From: East European Quarterly | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Italy's relationship with Albania is a recurrent theme of Albanian foreign policy debates. While points of view differ, (1) there is no escaping the fact that Italy is of primary importance to Albania because of cultural links, migratory patterns, foreign direct investment and security factors. Hence, bilateral cooperation with Italy has been high on the agenda of consecutive post-communist Albanian governments. But, the Italian perspective towards Albania has been a great deal more ambiguous and fraught with internal tensions that flow from two sources. First, Italy's "Albania ...

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