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.

Shinasi Rama
Clinical Professor
Columbia University
M.Phil, Ph.D., Political Science
University of South Carolina
M.A., International Relations
- International Relations
- Comparative Politics
- IR Theory
- Balance of Power
- The State
- Nationalism and Revolutions
Deputy Director, The NYU Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy
Fellowships and Awards
- 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
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Probleme Politike ShqiptareAlbanian Political Problems (English)National Albanian Studies Institute: Shkodër, 2006
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Perrallat e Tranzicionit ShqiptarTales of Albanian Transition (English)4th Edition, Princi: Tirane, 2012
Selected Articles
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Community or Metamorphosis? Realist Theories and the Anomaly of Medieval International PoliticsAlbanian Journal of Politics, Volume I< Issue 2, 2005: 92 - 137
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"Albania"Patrick Heenan and Monique Lamontagne, eds., Chicago: Glenlake Publishing, 2000: 116 - 129in The Central & East European Handbook
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Failed Transition, Elite Fragmentation and the Parliamentary Elections of 1997The IJAS Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring) 1997: 82 - 125
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).
- 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)
Contact Information
Shinasi Rama
Clinical Professor shinasi.rama@nyu.edu 19 University Place, Office 529New York, NY 10003