Since ending decades of Communist rule and isolation in 1991, Albania has made substantial progress toward Euro-Atlantic integration, joining NATO in 2009 and receiving conditional EU candidate status in 2012.

Progress on consolidating Albania’s democratic institutions, however, has been uneven. …

Natasa Kandic (left) and the Humanitarian Law Center draw praise from The Economist’s Tim Judah, who notes that the weekend’s fifth anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence also provides a prelude to the resumption of European Union (EU) sponsored …