IRIS Strategic paper Collection
Program areas
Completed projects

» IRIS Strategic Planning and Institutional Development

» Strategic planning and concrete advocacy campaigns: Key instruments for organisational capacity building in civil society organi

» Towards Irreversible Reforms in the Balkans: Sustaining Democracy and European Integration Amid Economic and Political Downturn

» Partners in Peacebuilding in the Balkans

» Black Sea Cooperation Policy Forum

» The Western Balkans: Strategies for Accelerated European Integration

» The Belene Nuclear Power Plant Project: Economic Consequences and Political Effects on Bulgaria’s National Interest

» Responding to Political and Social Consequences of the Global Economic Crisis in the Balkans

» Black Sea Young Reformers Fellowship

» Тренинг и социализация на млади ромски активисти в позиции на политическо и гражданско лидерство в българското общество

» The South-East of Europe: Reassessing Residual Problems, Finding Feasible Solutions

» Building a Pluralist Lobbying System in Bulgaria

» Strategy Planning for the Bulgarian NGO Movement Within the Demnet II Program

» Enhancing Public Influence and Exercising Control Over the Desicion-Making Process

» Networking for the Black Sea Region Stabilization and Integration

» Anchoring the Black Sea Countries to the Euro-Atlantic Mainstream

» Transborder Exchange of Reform Practices: Decentralization and Citizens' Inclusion

» The Process of Decentralization in Macedonia: Prospects for Ethnic Conflict Mitigation, Enhanced Representation

» Benefiting from Enlarging NATO to Southeast Europe: Promoting the New NATO Agenda

» Conducting a "Democracy Audit" in Bulgaria, Moldova and Georgia

» The Balkans and the New Global Agenda

» Civic Strategy for Promoting Bilateral Relations Between Bulgaria and Serbia

» Local Development and Transborder Cooperation Between Bulgaria and Serbia

» Bulgaria on the Threshold of the European Union: Trilateral Co-operation and Development of Industrial Relations

» Assessment of Civic Participation in Decision-Making in Moldova and Ukraine

» Promoting Security and Regional Cooperation: The Perspectives of NATO Enlargement and EU Association of Southeastern Europe

» Policy Analyses and Transatlantic Networking for SEE Reconstruction and Development

» IRIS Public Policy Analyses’ Capacity Building (Think Tank Development)

» Civic Self-Assessment of the NATO Membership Potential

» Security Challenges and Development of Southern Balkans

» International Fact--Finding Mission to the Republic of Macedonia

» Networking Between Bulgarian and Macedonian NGOs for Political Resolution of Problems in Bilateral Relations

» Civic, Institutional and Legislative Prerequisites for Regional Cooperation in the South-Eastern European Initiative

» Southern Balkan Cooperation

» Balkan Cooperation

» Analysis of the Situation in FR Yugoslavia in the Context of Bulgarian Foreign Policy and Security in the Balkans

» Sharing Policy Experience: Advocacy Training for NGO Activists,Communal and Business Leaders

» Community Development and Mechanisms for Efficient Local Governance Through Structured Public Private Interactions

» Youth Tourist Exchange. Business Initiatives for Community Development in South Eeastern Bulgaria

» Youth Community Council - Mission Possible: Civil Capacity Building in Local Policy-Making in Zavet

» Bulgaria in the Euro-Atlantic Security System

» Comparative Minority Study in Bulgaria

» Citizens’ Audit - Enhancing Civic Participation in the Municipal Budgetary Process in Bulgaria

» The Mid-Term Policy Agenda of the Balkans

 

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.