Berkley Center

This analysis examines Albania's 2024 proposal to establish a Vatican-style Bektashi microstate and situates it within the country's broader strategy of leveraging religious heritage for international influence. It assesses the initiative's potential implications for Albania's model of religious coexistence, state-religion relations, and domestic political dynamics.

Levi McLaughlin contends that in the post-Shinzo Abe age, we can expect Soka Gakkai and Komeito to remain pivotal forces and for religion, as a whole, to remain a potent force within Japanese politics.

Rohit Chopra argues that the Bharatiya Janata Party under the leadership of Narendra Modi has radically altered the role and significance of its version of Hinduism in Indian public culture and established legitimacy for it abroad.