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China’s Evolving Footprint in the Western Balkans: Navigating Between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Covid-19 Pandemic

July 16, 2020• Foreign Policy

China’s infrastructure diplomacy during the implementation of the BRI in the course of the past years is now being challenged and subject...

July 13, 2020• Foreign Policy

This paper discusses the trajectory of the influence of Turkey’s Foreign Policy on the Western Balkans and specifically Albania. Broadly,...

July 10, 2020• Security

While President Donald Trump has periodically downplayed the importance of NATO, without Allied solidarity in a range of contests,...

Looking back at the thirty year long history of Kosovo-Serbia talks, since Geneva meetings in the framework of Conferences on the Former...

July 6, 2020• Foreign Policy

In this essay, an attempt will be made to analyze the evolution of the Albanian-Chinese alliance and to explore the role of changing...

July 2, 2020• Foreign Policy

One of the most striking features of international politics, the bilateral unequal alliance often leaves the Small Power at a disadvantage....

June 27, 2020• Foreign Policy

Tirana Observatory revisits one of the most controversial periods of Albanian history: the relations of Albania with the Soviet Union...

May 13, 2020• EU Integration

ENIKA ABAZI Enlargement in pandemic times The COVID-19 pandemic crisis is likely to accelerate geopolitical changes at all levels, and the...

May 12, 2020• EU Integration

The Western Balkans is arguably the world’s biggest case-study of internationally-led democratization. Yet despite the great attention...

May 11, 2020• Politics

Kosovo’s government of hope fell apart in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis. Elections or an LDK-led government will not resolve...