IRIS Strategic paper Collection
      Completed projects

Balkan Security and Development

Southern Balkan Cooperation

  The aim of the project was to establish and develop an international network of experts, corporate executives and policy makers who could promote regional cooperation in the Southern Balkans in the fields of commerce, infrastructure, telecommunications and energy. One of the main accomplishments of the project was locating, attracting, and directing the attention of international experts, consulting groups and policy makers to the opportunities the Southern Balkans present for business initiatives and foreign investments. Another outcome of the project was the mobilization of public support for regional infrastructure initiatives on both local and national levels. The project was financially supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

 

 

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The Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) is an independent, non-government think tank. IRIS was established on June 11, 1997 by leading Bulgarian public and political figures, NGO leaders and prominent Bulgarian scholars in international relations, Balkan studies, history, social and political science, anthropology and economics.
 
The Institute for Regional and International Studies initiates, develops and implements civic strategies for democratic politics on national, regional and international level. The Institute promotes the values of democracy, civil society, freedom and respect of law, assists the process of Bulgarian integration in NATO and the EU and provides public policy analyses on current domestic and international issues. IRIS represents a strategic combination of advocacy-oriented and education-oriented think tank.