Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2013
Abstract
From the late nineteenth century to present, despite the apparent centrality, certainties and hopes attributed to 'Europe', Albanian and Georgian political and intellectual elites have exhibited ambivalent attitudes towards Europe over the last hundred years that are not likely to dissipate. From the very outset of their modern histories, Georgians and Albanians have continued to articulate, instrumentalise and experience 'Europe' as a tense triadic entity: as geopolitically important; as a torchbearer of progress; and as the symbol of civilisation and high culture - all of which have generated hopes as well as delusions towards it and themselves.