

Caucasus
CHAIR
Susan Allen
(George Mason U, US)
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PAPERS
Natia Chankvetadze
(Harvard U, US)
Open Solution Dialogue in the Protracted Conflict Context:
Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Margarita Tadevosyan
(George Mason U, US)
Human Security in Divided Societies:
Insights from Georgian–South Ossetian and Georgian–Abkhaz Contexts
Dashiell Yardumian
(UC Davis, US)
Anna Ohanyan
(Stonehill College, US) aohanyan@stonehill.edu
Benjamin Wofford
(U of Manchester, UK)
benjamin.wofford@student.manchester.ac.uk
Small State Strategies and Regional Order Formations
in the South Caucasus and the Middle East
Anna Gvetadze
(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)
Shifting Attitudes and Social Distance Toward Russians Among Ethnic Georgians:
A Comparative Study Before, During, and After the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Sama Naser Totah
(U of Michigan, US)
Beyond the Borderland:
The Transnational Dimensions of the Abkhaz War
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DISCUSSANT
William Buckley
(Georgetown U, US)