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Democratisation and Institutional Reform in Albania

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Abstract

This chapter examines newspaper coverage of military reform and demonstrates that it experienced a shift between the first and second decade of transition going from highly politicised in the 1990s to increasingly less so in the 2000s. This shift does not reflect any material change in Albania’s domestic conditions regarding military reform or international environment affecting NATO accession prospects. The chapter argues that this shift is the result of a slow developing mechanism that influenced the way Albanian elites constructed interests and ranked priorities. Specifically, the memory of the communist regime in conjunction with the memory of the main transition crises enabled Albanian elites to reframe and depoliticise the coverage of military reform paving the way for its institutionalisation.

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Notes

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    For an analysis of the 1997 crisis see: Miranda Vickers and James Pettifer, Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity, 1999.

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    The Albanian constitution required a 3/5 majority for the election of the president by parliament.

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Gjevori, E. (2018). Newspaper Coverage of Military Reform. In: Democratisation and Institutional Reform in Albania. New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73071-4_7

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