Caucasus Center for Regional Studies
CCRS is an interdisciplinary research unit established in 2025. It is a successor of the International School for Caucasus Studies (a research unit within the Ilia State University since 2009) and Center for Russian Studies, an independent research center founded in 2020.
It aims to carry out research, strengthen academic cooperation, and spread knowledge regarding the region of which Georgia is a part. This includes the Caucasus, Black Sea area, and Eastern Europe.
Publications
Gia Nodia
- Freedom and the State, Journal of Democracy, Volume 21, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 136-143.
- The Record of the Rose Revolution: Mixed but still impressive, in: Vicken Cheterian, Ed., From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions: Reform and Revolution after socialism (C. Hurst and Co: London), 2013, pp. 85-115.
- Georgian Policy towards the North Caucasus: Old Dilemmas, New Trends, in: Aiça Ergun, Hamlet Isaxanli (eds.), Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in the EU, the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus (IOS Press: Amsterdam, Berlin, etc), 2013, pp. 137-151.
- About the love of peace and conflict of liberalism, in Leila Alieva, ed., The Soviet Legacy 22 years on: Reversed or Reinforced (Qanun Publishing: Baku), 2013, pp. 28-45.
Davit Aprasidze
- Georgia. Country Report, Freedom House, Nations in Transit 2010, New York 2010, pp. 211-230.
- Frozen Transitions and Unfrozen Conflicts, Or What Went Wrong in Georgia? Yale Journal of International Affairs, Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010, pp.121-136. (co-author).
- Abschied von einer Ära: Machtwechsel in Georgien, in: KAS Auslandsinformationen
- სუპერსაპრეზიდენტოდან საპარლამენტომდე. საკონსტიტუციო ცვლილებები საქართველოში (თანარედაქტორი), კონრად ადენაუერის ფონდი და ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, 2013.
- პოლიტიკის მეცნიერებების კვლევის მეთოდები (აშშ-ის საელჩოს გრანტით შესრულებული თარგმანის სამეცნიერო რედაქტორი), ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, 2013.
Archil Abashidze
- “Georgia: A Case Study”, in: ” Effective mechanisms and practices for fighting corruption in the Black Sea Region: Lessons learned and further steps for Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia”, Bucharest 2010
Giorgi Gvalia
Contacts
3/5 Cholokashvili Avenue
Tbilisi 0162, Georgia
iscs@iliauni.edu.ge
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