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                                                                                    <journal-title>Akademi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2667-4866</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2667-4886</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University</publisher-name>
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                                                            <subject>European and Region Studies</subject>
                                                            <subject>International Politics</subject>
                                                            <subject>Political Science (Other)</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Avrupa ve Bölge Çalışmaları</subject>
                                                            <subject>Uluslararası Siyaset</subject>
                                                            <subject>Siyaset Bilimi (Diğer)</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>THE RIVALRY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND ITALY ABOUT THE OIL CONCESSIONS IN ALBANIA (1925)</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>THE RIVALRY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND ITALY ABOUT THE OIL CONCESSIONS IN ALBANIA (1925)</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9904-0963</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Mehmeti</surname>
                                    <given-names>Armend</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Institute of History</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20240529">
                    <day>05</day>
                    <month>29</month>
                    <year>2024</year>
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                                        <volume>11</volume>
                                        <issue>32</issue>
                                        <fpage>91</fpage>
                                        <lpage>100</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20230930">
                        <day>09</day>
                        <month>30</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20240129">
                        <day>01</day>
                        <month>29</month>
                        <year>2024</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2014, </copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>This article elaborates on the importance of oil in geopolitical issues, with a specific focus on interwar Albania. Since it proved to be a better solution than coal for transport and military purposes, oil became an issue of fierce competition between powers. The countries that lacked technology to process oil hoped to benefit politically and economically from oil concessions. It happened so with Albania. Devastated by World War I and trying to maintain the country&#039;s independence and territorial integrity, the Albanian government welcomed the British proposal to grant oil concessions to British companies. However, the granting of concessions met with the opposition of Italy, which aimed at economic penetration into Albania. Thus, Britain and Italy developed a fierce diplomatic rivalry that ended in 1925 with a political compromise. Using primarily the British perspective, this paper examines the origin, development and outcome of the conflict between Britain and Italy over Albanian oil; it examines how oil affected foreign policy of both states towards Albania and how these clashes affected Albania&#039;s internal political environment. The basic course of this article is a descriptive historical narrative methodology. The paper is structured in three thematic-chronological themes, besides the introduction. This approach combines historical and archival sources with contemporary literature to provide a fair interpretation of historical developments. As a result of the arguments presented in this paper, we have concluded that regional developments during the interwar period were only one segment of the global policies of the Great Powers.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Birinci Dünya Savaşı petrolün, yalnızca endüstriyel gelişme için değil aynı zamanda ulusal güvenlik için de belirleyici bir faktör haline geldiğini kanıtladı. Birinci Dünya Savaşı&#039;ndan sonra Büyük Güçler, petrol çıkarma ve işleme konusunda gerekli teknolojik araçlara sahip olmayan ülke ve bölgelerdeki petrol yataklarını elde edebilmek için rekabete girdi. Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın tahrip ettiği, ülkesinin bağımsızlığını ve toprak bütünlüğünü korumaya çalışan Arnavutluk hükümeti, İngiliz şirketlerine petrol imtiyazı verilmesi yönündeki İngiliz hükümetinin önerisini memnuniyetle karşıladı. Ancak verilen bu imtiyaz, Arnavutluk&#039;a ekonomik nüfuz etmeyi amaçlayan İtalya&#039;nın muhalefetiyle karşılaştı. Böylece İngiltere ve İtalya arasında aşırı bir diplomatik rekabet gelişti ve bu rekabet 1925&#039;te siyasi uzlaşmayla sona erdi. Araştırma, öncelikle Britanya&#039;nın bakış açısını kullanarak, Britanya ile İtalya arasında Arnavutluk petrolü konusundaki anlaşmazlığın kökeni, gelişimi ve sonuçları incelenmiş ayrıca petrolün her iki devletin Arnavutluk&#039;un dış politikasını nasıl etkilediğini ve bu rekabette Arnavutluk&#039;taki iç siyasi ortamın nasıl etkilendiği incelenmiştir. Bu makalede, karşılaştırmalı ve kronolojik bir metodoloji kullanılmıştır. Bu yaklaşım, arşiv ve tarihsel belgelerin çağdaş edebiyatla birleşerek, tarihsel gelişmelerin adil bir şekilde yorumlanmasını sağlamaktadır. Bu makalede elde edilen bulgular sonucunda; iki savaş arası dönemdeki bölgesel gelişmelerin Büyük Güçlerin küresel politikalarının yalnızca bir bölümünü oluşturduğu sonucu ortaya çıktığı ifade edilebilir.Anahtar Kelime: Arnavutluk, Milletler Cemiyeti, Büyük Britanya, Petrol imtiyazları, İngiliz-Pers Şirketi, Mussolini, Zogu vb.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Albania</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  League of Nations</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Great Britain</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  oil concessions</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Anglo-Persian Company</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Mussolini</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Zogu</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  etc.</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Arnavutluk</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Milletler Cemiyeti</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Büyük Britanya</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Petrol imtiyazları</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  İngiliz-Pers Şirketi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Mussolini</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Zogu vb</kwd>
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