Si Shqipëria, dhe më pas Kosova, hynë në vëmendjen e Uashingtonit – How Albania, and then Kosovo, entered Washington’s attention — a review published in Gazeta Tema

The book corrects a persistent myth in Albanian historical memory: that Woodrow Wilson, moved by the justice of the Albanian cause, used his moral authority to protect Albania’s borders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Nahzi’s research, drawing on declassified CIA files, State Department cables, and congressional documents, tells a more complicated and more honest story. Albania entered Washington’s agenda not through Wilsonian idealism but through the organized lobbying of a small community of Albanian immigrants in Boston — and, later, through the commercial interests of American oil companies.

It is a story about how a small diaspora with few resources learned to operate the levers of American foreign policy, first to secure Albanian independence in 1922, and again, decades later, to push NATO toward intervention in Kosovo in 1999. Nahzi’s argument is that Albanian Americans deserve to be placed alongside Irish Americans, Cuban Americans, and Jewish Americans as one of the most consequential ethnic lobbies in modern American history.

The book ends with a warning: that capacity has faded, replaced by professional lobbying firms contracted directly from Tirana and Pristina — a transactional logic that began with Sinclair Oil in 1922 and continues today.

The full review in Albanian can be found here