Fatos Tarifa

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Fatos Tarifa (born 1954) is a former diplomat and a social scientist from Albania. He served as Albanian ambassador to the Netherlands (1998-2001) and to the United States (2001-2005). He is a university professor and has published numerous books and articles on political science, sociology, and international relations. His books and articles have covered topics ranging from democratic transition and social issues in Eastern Europe to human development, and current international affairs. From 1997 to 1999, Tarifa was the Editor in Chief of Sociological Analysis, an international quarterly journal published in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has served, since 1996 as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Social Sciences. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the founding director of the New Sociological Research Center in Tirana, Albania. Prior to that (1991-1993), he was the founding chair of the Sociological Research Center at the University of Tirana. Tarifa has a double doctorate, with a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1998) and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Tirana (1985). He has been, inter alia, a lectuerer, a researcher and a distinguished visiting fellow since 1981, when he joined the School of Political Science and Law at the University of Tirana. In 1992 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the Department of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The former ambassador has been a guest lecturer at various universities Duke University, Stanford University, New York University, Harvard University, Eastern Michigan University, University of Essex, University of Amsterdam etc.