Book Launch: Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania's First and Last King
March 26, 2024 | 5:30PM - 7:30PM
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In-person
This in-person event took place in the Boardroom at the Observatory, Munk School, 315 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario.
Robert Austin joined us for a discussion of his new book that begins in 1961, when Albanian King Zog I died in a Paris hospital after 22 years in exile. Austin tells the colorful story of this Balkan country's first and only homegrown monarch. The road to becoming Europe's youngest president in 1925 and then king of Albania in 1928 was paved with feuds and assassinations. Austin combines Zog’s adventurous life story with a studious analysis of Albania's political history from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the threshold of Euro-Atlantic integration.
Remarks by Professors Randall Hansen and Edward Schatz.
Speakers
Robert C. Austin
Associate Director, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Professor, Teaching Stream, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Munk School
Randall Hansen
Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School,
Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, and Director, Global Migration Lab
Edward Schatz
Director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School, Director, Belt and Road in Global Perspective,
Director, Eurasia Initiative and Professor, Department of Political Science