Greater Albania?

Abstract:

The nightmare scenario of a violent push for a 'Greater Albania' has been much exaggerated. There is undoubtedly a nucleus of hardline nationalist whose goal is to unite a future independent Kosovo with Albania and carve off slices of Serbia proper, Montenegro and Macedonia. But no major Albanian political party in any of these places advocates a 'Greater Albanian' state.

This would change only if Albanians felt that their rights were not being served in the countries in which they lived, or if they lost confidence that Kosovo would, one day, be independent. Of equal importance is that the region as a whole prosper, and that the borders which now divide the Albanians dissolve in the way they have dissolved between European Union states.