Perspective Archives - Tirana Observatory

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

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

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

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

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...

January 25, 2026• Featured, Perspective

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

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...

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

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

by Altin Gjeta Introduction Albania’s transition from communist dictatorship to democracy has been marked by high political polarization....

By Marcus Braybrooke On September 11th – that fateful day – a young Muslim from Pakistan was evacuated from the World Trade...