Testimonials

Albania has made tremendous progress in the last twenty years and is moving smartly towards its European home. AIIS is both a cause and a consequence. Its sharp analytical focus on the world beyond Tirana has helped what was once one of the most isolated countries on earth, become an active contributor to the international order. These have been marvelously productive years for both Albania and its leading institute!

Daniel P. Serwer

The Albanian Institute for International Studies, through its many conferences and publications, has become the leading organization of its kind in Albania and an important contributor to the discussion of a broad range of issues in the Balkans in general. It has provided a forum for in-country specialists and established important contacts with analysts and policymakers throughout the Balkans and the Western world. AIIS has made an important contribution to regional and general understanding of issues facing the Balkans. 

Bernd J. Fischer

AIIS is at the center of Albania ’s small group of independent think tanks. The Institute’s extensive speaker program and publishing projects have been central to building a base of qualified, non-governmental experts in defense policy, security affairs, and political analysis.

Charles King

Assistant Professor of Foreign Service and Government, Georgetown University

The Albanian institute of International Studies is one of the most professional, brilliant and active think tanks of the Balkans. In these years AIIS staff made a great work in contributing to promote regional cooperation and understanding among scholars and academician who have different views over the transition of the Balkans from post-communism and ethnic conflicts towards liberal democracy and the European commonwealth. Our institute has cooperated both in Italy and in Albania in organizing successful scientific and institutional events with AIIS.

I feel honoured to congratulate the Albanian Institute for International Studies to its 10th anniversary! It is difficult to realize that this institution exists now only for 10 years because its impact on Albanian politics and in particular its reputation abroad gives one the feeling that this must be an old institution with long tradition!

Since its inception, the Albanian Institute of International Studies has played an important role in Albanian society. As the leading Albanian policy-focused institute, it has promoted debate on critical foreign policy and security issues, it has had an impact in policy making by bringing together decision makers and policy analysts in Albania with their foreign counterparts, and it has promoted a regional network of analysts to enhance regional cooperation and regional security.

Janusz Bugajski

AIIS energetically sought to deepen and widen Albania ’s foreign policy and national security debate. The AIIS is the most serious think tank devoted to such topics. This institute has spawned public discussion about not just events in the Balkans, but wider European and Global issues. In a political milieu fraught with deep schism and vehement loyalties AIIS is known by both socialist and Democratic Party governments as a principal source of international information and contacts and is respected by international NGOs and foreign diplomats in Tirana.