Ylber Marku
Professional affiliation
Expertise
- Cold War
- History
- Sino-Albanian relations during the Cold War
Full Biography
Ylber Marku is Lecturer in History at Zhejiang University, China. He is a Cold War historian with research interests in Albania’s communist past, Tirana’s transnational networks during the communist period, the Global Cold War, Sino-Albanian Relations, East European History, and the Global South in the Sixties. Dr. Marku obtained his Ph.D. in History at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, in November 2017. Before his doctoral studies, he studied Political Science and Politics of the European Union at the University of Padua, Italy, and has lived in different European countries such as Spain, the Netherlands, and Greece. Dr. Marku has published research articles in leading journals in his field such as, among others, Cold War History, Journal of Cold War Studies, and The International History Review. He is currently working on several research articles and the completion of his first monograph.
Major Publications
- Ylber Marku, “Shifting Alliances: Albania in the Early Cold War”, Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3, (Fall 2022): 80-115. Research Article. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_01074
- Ylber Marku, "Communist Relations in Crisis: The End of the Soviet-Albanian Relations, and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-61”, The International History Review, Vol. 42, no. 4, (2020): 813-832. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2019.1620825?journalCode=rinh20
- Ylber Marku, “China and Albania: The Cultural Revolution and Cold War Relations”, Cold War History, Vol. 17, no. 4, (2017): 367–383. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682745.2017.1307179