Vicini, ma non amici. Italia democratica e Albania comunista negli anni della Guerra fredda

Abstract

This essay is focused on the history of bilateral relations between the Italian Republic and Communist Albania, from 1944 to 1991. In those years this two countries, that had had strong connections during the interwar period, tried with some difficulties to positively rebuild their relationship, despite their different position in the Cold War International System. They reached a normalization but, due to also ideological division and Albanian Regime’s isolationism it was impossible to rebuild a profound relation between two peoples linked by a historic friendship.