商品簡介
With Albania as a case study, Kalemaj argues that power struggles between elites who are inside the country and those who are outside, or diasporic, play the primary role in the construction of political agendas that create national borders. He further posits that elites engineer and manipulate national symbols in order to create an environment necessary for personal political gain, using ethnic, cultural, and national bonds/divides to maximize the obtaining or retaining of power when windows open up. There are six chapters: delineating the playing field: virtual borders and imagined geographies; boundary mapping and territorialization of identity; from nation-building to state formation: how virtual mapping intersected with recognized borders in the Albanian imagination; the interwar period and the shifting of virtual borders at elite and mass level in Albania and abroad: from contractionary to expansionary and vice-versa; from “Greater Albania” during the Second World War to contractionary borders in the Communist Era; reimagining territorial landscape and mental borders in the Post-Communist and Democratic Transition Era. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Ilir Kalemaj is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of New York Tirana. He is the author of Sources of Irredentism in Foreign Policy: Understanding Kin Policies in the Aftermath of Communism in Serbia and Albania (2009) and has published journal articles and book chapters on ethnic conflict, nationalism, identity politics, democratization and European integration. In addition to his academic research, he has published short stories and poetry and is a frequent contributor to the Albanian press.
