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Albania i Libia – odległe stosunki z czasów zimnej wojny
Albania and Libya: a Distant Cold War Relationship

Author(s): Klejd Këlliçi
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, International relations/trade, Cold-War History
Published by: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
Keywords: Cold War; Arab world; socialism; Libya; Albania;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I examine the relations between Albania with Libya, especially after the establishment of the Gaddafi’s regime and its peculiar brand of socialism. In doing so this paper proceeds in two directions. First, I examine foreign relations among small countries, in this case Albania and Libya. Secondly, I examine the above-mentioned relations in terms of ideological constrictions, especially from the perspective of a country like Albania, which practised, from the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties, forms of self-isolation and insulation from the outer world in the name of its particular view of MarxismLeninism and socialism.

  • Issue Year: 41/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 149-165
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English