Small state playing the asymmetric game: continuity and change in Albanian foreign policy

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Açar, Dilaver Arıkan

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This thesis examines Albanian foreign policy from a small state point of view.The main argument is that Albania as a weak small state developed close relations with the regional and great powers and align with them in order to compensate its weakness. An historical analysis of the Albanian foreign policy line since its establishment portrays a continuity in this trend except the short isolationist period. The study has three main objectives, firstly, it aims to provide an analysis of the small state foreign policy and small state great power asymmetric relations within the framework of Albania’s relations with various regional and great powers. Secondly, to elaborate the relevance of the enduring weakness of Albania on its foreign policy making in particular with its relations and alliances with the great powers. In this sense, an analysis of the Albanian foreign policy shows a pattern of shifting alliances in different time periods and under different regimes as part of foreign policy line. Thirdly, to make the historical account of Albania’s alliances and relations with the great powers in terms of continuity and change in its foreign policy line. Albania’s post-Cold War era foreign policy indicates a continuity in this line as it approaches the US as the great power to align with as well as one of two main pillars of its foreign policy along with the Euro-Atlantic integration. In this context, the contemporary Albanian-US relations constitute the last phase of the Albanian foreign policy trend.

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Albania, International relations.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609692/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17788

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D. A. Açar, “Small state playing the asymmetric game: continuity and change in Albanian foreign policy,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2008.