RAND Research Topic: Albania 2012-05-24T14:56:13Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/albania.html European Forces Play Growing Role in Nation-Building, Peacekeeping Operations Worldwide http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG722.html Jul 8, 2008 Jul 8, 2008 <p>Over the past few years, the European Union has demonstrated the capacity to deploy and employ armed force outside its borders in support of broader common policy objectives, creating a new player in nation-building operations.</p> Instability and Change in the Balkans http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP144.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003 Instability and Change in the Balkans Why Milosevic Decided to Settle the Conflict Over Kosovo When He Did http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB71.html Dec 31, 2000 Dec 31, 2000 Weighs and analyzes the various factors and pressures that appear to have most heavily shaped Milosevic's decisionmaking. The analysis offers insights into the capabilities that the United States and its allies will need for future coercive operations. Albania opens up, but to what future? http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7813.html Dec 31, 1992 Dec 31, 1992 One year after its first democratic elections in March 1992, Albania stands on the threshold of promising reform. Albanians are held together by strong cultural links and a historic social code. Yet a long history of domination by outsiders raises th... Impressions of Post-Tito Yugoslavia: A Trip Report http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N1813.html Dec 31, 1981 Dec 31, 1981 Post-Tito Yugoslavia is a more open society than was the Yugoslavia of the 1970s. The media display considerable criticism and autonomy. Yugoslav foreign policy has been marked by continuity in the period since Tito's death. Eastern Europe After the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3983.html Dec 31, 1967 Dec 31, 1967 A report addressed to the question, Has the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia permanently reversed or only retarded the trend toward national autonomy and liberalization in Eastern Europe? It examines the reaction to the invasion and current politic... Khruschchev's attack on Albania and Sino-Soviet relations http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2478-1.html Dec 31, 1960 Dec 31, 1960 A discussion of the reasons for Khrushchev's open attack on the Albanian Party leadership (and, indirectly, on the Chinese Communist leadership as well) at the 22nd Party Congress in October 1961. The significance of this renewed pressure on Peking a...