Black Sea Security and Development

Policy Analyses and Transatlantic Networking for SEE Reconstruction and Development

 The project aims to set priorities and clearly define the goals of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe. It is providing analytical assistance and policy growth/development in the fields of regional security systems institutional development and infrastructure economic development. IRIS is implementing the project by building special partnerships and cooperation throughout the transatlantic policy analysis community. It is facilitating the transfer of know how and expertise from the US and Western Europe to the region of Southeastern Europe in order to promote the development of viable strategies for regional integration as a major precondition for the integration of Balkan nations into Western institutions. Project activities include coordinating national, regional and international policy analysis distribution and communication in the forms of round table discussions and conferences.

A major instrument for disseminating project information and results is IRIS Quarterly Report. Printed on regular basis, the report offers policy analyses, strategic papers, policy views and expectations in the fields of cooperative integration, security integration, political integration, and economic integration. IRIS Quarterly Report is open to policy analyses from partner organizations from both sides of the Atlantic and SEE thus contributing to a presentation of diverse pool of views, interests, plans and strategies for the future of the region. The duration of the project is one year and is being implemented with the financial support of the German Marshal Fund of the US.

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