Bogdan C. Iacob

Reframing Anti-Soviet Defiance: Albania, Romania and Global Circulations of Sovereignty (1960–1964)

The article reframes Albania’s and Romania’s defiance of the Soviet Union by situating it within global debates about sovereignty. We use the latter as an umbrella term that encompasses concepts such as equality in international relations, economic self-reliance and self-determination against hegemony. During the 1950s...