Albania and the Balkan Entente

Abstract

The issue of Balkan security, understanding, and cooperation occupies a
central position in discussions at conferences, symposiums, and seminars organized
by governments and NGOs, political parties, businessmen, and people
of arts and culture. Within this Balkan environment, historians have their own
role.
The peoples of the Balkans have many common aspects in their history:
joint efforts to win and protect their freedom and independence, to protect
peace and to strengthen understanding and cooperation with each other. One
of these efforts was the Balkan Entente, established in the early 1930’s. Albania
attempted at that time to be a part of the Balkan Entente, but it did not
become a member.
The present article is the first attempt to interpret these events —the
foundation of the Balkan Alliance and Albania’s efforts to adhere to it—,
putting it in its historical framework, since the history of diplomacy of
Albania, during the period between the two World Wars was not treated
sufficiently by the Albanian historians up to now.