THE STATE OF ALBANIA (ICG Balkans Report N°54)
THE STATE OF ALBANIA (ICG Balkans Report N°54)
Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Governance, Security and defense
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Summary/Abstract: As always in Albania, settling accounts with the past plays a large part in the reality of the present causing the country to remain entrenched in conflictual politics. A new political and national identity is still in the process of formation, whilst the country remains beset by its geographical position in a Balkan peninsular rent by the uncertainties of war and economic collapse. Former President Sali Berisha is becoming increasingly unstable and contemptuous of both internal public and international opinion. Almost daily he issues personal attacks on various members of the governing Socialist Party and also upon foreign diplomats, thereby encouraging the already noticeable trend towards xenophobia that is evident throughout Albania.
Series: ICG Balkans Report
- Page Count: 18
- Publication Year: 1999
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
