Albania and Libya: A Distant Cold War Relationship

• Authors: Klejdi Këlliçi

Title variants

PL

Albania i Libia – odległe stosunki z czasów zimnej wojny

Abstracts

PL

W niniejszym artykule chciałbym przeanalizować relacje Albanii z Libią, zwłaszcza po ustanowieniu reżimu Kaddafiego w jego szczególnej odmianie socjalizmu. W tym celu rozważania będą podążać w dwóch kierunkach. Najpierw chciałbym przedstawić stosunki zagraniczne między małymi państwami, w tym przypadku Albanią i Libią. Następnie zbadam te relacje pod kątem ograniczeń ideologicznych, zwłaszcza z perspektywy kraju takiego jak Albania, który od połowy lat sześćdziesiątych do połowy osiemdziesiątych w imię określonego spojrzenia na marksizm-leninizm i socjalizm praktykował formy samoizolacji i odcięcia od świata zewnętrznego.

EN

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 Marxism-Leninism and socialism.

Keywords

EN

Cold War; Arab world; socialism; Libya; Albania

PL

zimna wojna; kraje arabskie; socjalizm; Libia; Albania

• Publisher: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
• Journal: Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 149-165

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Klejdi Këlliçi

• University of Tirana

• https://orcid.org/0000000188773590

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Identifiers

DOI

10.48261/pis234107

Biblioteka Nauki

2230857