Perspective

Albert Rakipi is Chairman of the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS). His latest book is The Perils of Change: Albania’s Foreign Policy in Transition.

King Zog – The Founder of the Modern Albanian State and the Imperative of Confronting the Past

November 15, 2026• #Perspective, Perspective, Uncategorized

By Albert Rakipi, PhD 1 The republication in Albanian of the book on King Zog and the kingdom he founded and ruled comes more than a...

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Europe’s Strategic Reproduction Crisis: Why Defence Readiness Depends on Institutional Capacity

October 12, 2026• #Perspective, Perspective

By Glenn Agung Hole, PhD Europe has rediscovered the economics of security. The harder lesson is that money is only the beginning. For much...

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The Strategic Costs of Non-Enlargement: Why EU Inaction in the Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood Undermines European Security and Global Influence

July 29, 2026• EU Integration, Featured, in depth, Perspective

by Marta Szpala Executive Summary The European Union’s enlargement policy has historically been its most successful foreign policy...

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The Costs of Non-Enlargement and the Imperative for Strategic EU Engagement in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

July 29, 2026• EU Integration, Featured, in depth, Perspective

by Kornely Kakachia, Georgian Institute of Politics Introduction The European Union’s enlargement and neighbourhood policies toward...

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Costs of Non-Enlargement to the Western Balkans: State Building, Externally Induced Political Accountability, and EU Policy Innovation

July 29, 2026• EU Integration, Featured, in depth, Perspective

by Sokol Lleshi, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of New York Tirana Executive Summary The recent reinvigoration of the...

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Albania’s Civic Awakening: A Year After Rama’s Landslide, the Illusion of Invincibility Breaks

June 11, 2026• Perspective

by Elez Biberaj One year after Prime Minister Edi Rama swept to a fourth consecutive term, Albania finds itself in a profoundly different...

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How a Balkan Wind Farm Aids US National Security

January 25, 2026• Featured, Perspective

Energy suppliers in southeastern Europe are heavily politicized and sometimes nefarious. The US can aid democratic stability through energy...

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Albania: Between Reform Dynamics and Democratic Fragility

November 23, 2025• Perspective

Elez Biberaj Thirty-five years after Albania’s emergence from one of Europe’s most repressive communist regimes, the country’s...

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The Unfinished EU: Western Balkan Integration as a Geostrategic Necessity- 20 years of EU promise

February 1, 2024• #Perspective, Foreign Policy, Perspective, Politics, Uncategorized

By Tanja Fajon,  Alexander Schallenberg  and Gordan Radman Grlic 1 In her 2023 State of the Union address, European Commission...

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Albania: The ‘Sleeping Renewable Energy Giant’ of The Balkans?

January 31, 2024• #Perspective, Economics, Perspective

VALENTINA DEDI1 Located in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula in South-eastern Europe, Albania hardly makes the headlines when it...

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