Session 9
Friday (May 6):
2.00-3.30 PM ET
CHAIR
Julie George
(Queens College CUNY, US)
PAPERS
Andreas Heinemann-Grüder
(Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, Germany)
The Survival of Post-Soviet De Facto Regimes
*co-authored with Anastasia Felcher (Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest )
Valery Dzutsati
(U of Kansas, US)
Territorial Expansion of Modern States:
Evidence from Russia’s Absorption of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Natia Gamkrelidze
(Harvard U, US)
From a Dependent to a Neutral Neighbor: The Evolution of Russian
Images of Georgia from 1991 to 2020
Farhad Huseynov
(Baku State U, Azerbaijan)
Russia’s Policy Toward South Caucasus in Terms
of Defensive and Offensive Realism
DISCUSSANT
Ryhor Nizhnikau
(Finnish Institute of International Affairs)