Violence because of gender is a global issue preventing social progress, equality, and human rights. Understanding geographical trends of gender-based violence is critical for developing effective prevention and intervention ...

Western Balkan is an important region for Russia in addressing itself as the main player and increasing its influence and power over the states of this region.Russia’s view on Western Balkan is also related with competing ...

When we first started this research, I noticed that there were a significant number of studies focused entirely on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the African continent and reshaping African politics, yet very few is ...

ABSTRACT Citizen participation is an opportunity given to individuals to influence public decisions and known as component of the democratic decision-making process due to positive effect on the quality of democracy. In ...

The aim of this thesis is to indentify and estimate the impact of firm-specific variables in export propensity and export performance in small and medium enterpises (SMEs) of Central and Eastern European countries, including ...

This thesis is focused to give an introduction on how the implementation of the electoral proportional system adopted in 2009 in the Republic of Albania, with the support of the EU delegation, is to implement in practice ...

This study has a modest contribution in the discourse of democratization process for the post-communist countries from a perspective of political culture. Through the empirical analyses and findings in this research, I ...

The main purpose of this thesis is to shed light on the issues of children exploitation as being one of the most vulnerable groups in Albania. The phenomenon first appeared in the 1990s after the collapse of the communist ...

Recent devastating earthquakes in Albania have shown the inadequate seismic performance of existing building stock. In Albania, template designs developed by the General Directorate of Construction Affairs are used for ...

Organizational ambidexterity refers to a firm’s ability to balance both exploitation and exploration activities. While explaining the equilibrium between exploitation and exploration activities in organizational ambidexterity ...