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Albania and China: A study of an Unequal Alliance

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The main thesis of this study is that a Small Power, such as Albania, with a potentially significant ideologogical, political, and strategic contribution to the competition between Great Powers, may be able to extract considerable concessions from a prospective Great Power ally, and manipulate the latter more effectively than vice versa.

Author(s): Elez Biberaj
Series: Westview special studies in international relations
Edition: 1
Publisher: Westview Press
Year: 1986

Language: English
Pages: 183
City: Boulder, Colo.

First chapter: a historical background of Albania's search for security in light of its Small Power status.
Second chapter: evaluates the main determinants of the formation of the Albanian-Chinese alliance.
Third and forth chapter: The evolution of the alliance the impact of ideology and systemic factors on alliance cohesion.
Fifth chapter: Albanian-Chinese economic and military interaction and its effect on alliance maintenance.
Final chapter: recounts the emergence of political and ideological differences between Albania and China and surveys the developments that led to the disintegration of the alliance.