CHAIR

Julie George 

(Queens College CUNY, US)

julie.george@qc.cuny.edu

 

 

PAPERS

Andreas Heinemann-Grüder

(Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, Germany)

heinemann-grueder@bicc.de

The Survival of Post-Soviet De Facto Regimes

*co-authored with Anastasia Felcher (Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest )

 

Valery Dzutsati 

(U of Kansas, US)

valery.dzutsati@ku.edu

Territorial Expansion of Modern States:

Evidence from Russia’s Absorption of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

 

Natia Gamkrelidze 

(Harvard U, US)

ngamkrelidze@fas.harvard.edu

From a Dependent to a Neutral Neighbor: The Evolution of Russian

Images of Georgia from 1991 to 2020

 

Farhad Huseynov

(Baku State U, Azerbaijan)

farhadh12@gmail.com

Russia’s Policy Toward South Caucasus in Terms 

of Defensive and Offensive Realism

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DISCUSSANT

Ryhor Nizhnikau

(Finnish Institute of International Affairs)

gregory.nizhnikau@gmail.com