Shinasi Rama

Shinasi Rama

Clinical Professor

About

Shinasi Rama is a Clinical Professor of Politics with the International Relations Program at NYU. He has studied at the Albanian Military University and at the University of Tirana, Albania. He was one of leaders of the Student Movement in Albania and a co-founder of the Democratic Party of Albania. He also served as a Political Advisor and as the Spokesman of the Provisional Government of Kosova in the US. He also was the Political Advisor of the Kosovar Albanian Delegation at the Rambouillet Conference. After the war of Kosova served as a Senior Political Advisor to the Prime Minister of Interim Government of Kosova. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Albanian Studies. He also has appeared in a variety of media outlets including Voice of America, BBC, C-Span, PBS (Lehrer News), ABC, NBC, CBS, CBC, Huffington Post, Brian Lehrer, Democracy Now, Fox News, as well as in numerous printed and visual media outlets in the US and abroad.

Education

Columbia University
M.Phil, Ph.D., Political Science

University of South Carolina
M.A., International Relations

Areas of Research

  • International Relations
  • Comparative Politics
  • IR Theory
  • Balance of Power
  • The State
  • Nationalism and Revolutions

External Affiliations

  • NYU Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy

Fellowships and Awards

  • 2015 Meritorious Recognition Award, University Kadri Zeka, Gjilan, Kosova
  • 2012 Humanitarian Award, Foundation Plave-Guci
  • 2012 Citation of Merit, The President of the Borough of the Bronx, NY
  • 2012 Citation of Honor, The President of the Borough of Manhattan, NY
  • 2007 Hooder, Graduate School of Arts & Science, NYU
  • 2003 Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Arts & Science, NYU
  • 2000 The Order "Adem Jashari," The Prime Minister of the Government of Kosova
  • 1997 - 2000 President's Fellow, Columbia University

Books

  • The Problem of the Medieval State in the International Relations Literature
    In Progress
  • The State and the Security Synthesis
    In Progress
  • The End of Communism And the Student Movement in Albania
    Routledge: London, 2019
  • Nation Failure, Ethnic Elites, and Balance of Power
    Palgrave, New York City, 2019
  • Per Levizjen Studentore Shqiptare [The Albanian Student Movement]
    Princi: Tirane, 2015 (386pp.)
  • Perrallat e Tranzicionit Shqiptar (Rrethi I Ferrit) Volume II, [Tales of Albanian Transition]
    Instituti i Studimeve Kombetare Shqiptare: Shkoder, 2015 (483pp.)
  • Perrallat e Tranzicionit Shqiptar Volume I, [Tales of Albanian Transition]
    Princi: Tirane, 2012 (500pp).
    Book currently in its fifth edition.
  • Probleme Politike Shqiptare [Albanian Political Problems]
    National Albanian Studies Institute: Shkodër, 2006 (385pp.)

Selected Articles

  • The Student Movement Was a Central Independent Factor in the Changing of the Political System
    Introduction to the Book of Dr. Llukman Halili, Studentski Pokret I Tranzicija Albanije, 1990-1992, Zagreb, 2015: 11 - 15.
  • Me Keto Bisedime Kosova Nuk Mundet Me Kene Shtet
    in Shkelzen Gashi, Statusi Pa Pardon Prishtine, 2006: 125 - 137
  • Community or Metamorphosis? Realist Theories and the Anomaly of Medieval International Politics
    Albanian Journal of Politics, Volume I< Issue 2, 2005: 92 - 137
  • "Albania"
    Patrick Heenan and Monique Lamontagne, eds., Chicago: Glenlake Publishing, 2000: 116 - 129
    in The Central & East European Handbook
  • The Serb-Albanian War and the International Community’s Miscalculations
    The International Journal of Albanian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring) 1998: 1 - 36
  • Failed Transition, Elite Fragmentation and the Parliamentary Elections of 1997
    The IJAS Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring) 1997: 82 - 125

Current Projects

Shinasi Rama is currently working on a book on state collapse (The Heart of Darkness) and on another project on Identity Formation in the Ottoman Empire (From the Empire to the Tribe). 

Courses Taught

  • International Relations (INTRL-GA 1700)
  • Nationalism (INTRL-GA 1731)
  • Nationalism and Ethnicity (INTRL-GA 1731)
  • Grand Strategy (INTRL-GA 1731)
  • Nation-Building & State-Building (INTRL-GA 1731)
  • Master's Thesis Seminar (INTRL-GA 4000)