Noela Mahmutaj (PhD) is an early-career researcher and lecturer at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Tirana, Albania. Her main research interests and publications focus on IR topics, especially those related to contemporary geopolitics and external influences in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions. She has published several research papers and […]
The countries of the Western Balkan region – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*[1], North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia – share a common aspiration for a future within the European Union, despite their diversity and idiosyncrasies[2]. That said, the territorial and political complexities of this region of nearly 20 million inhabitants, render the translation of EU […]