Direction:Political Science
Position:Associate Professor
Nino Pavlenishvili graduated from Faculty of Physics, Tbilisi State University, defended PhD in Physics and Mathematics. Later she graduated the School of International Relations and Law (concentration – IR), Georgian Institute of PuclicAffairs and was awarded with Cum Laude Diploma. Nino was a doctorate student at the Department of Political Science/IR, Ilinois State University (USA). Since 2011 she is part of Ilia State Universtity first as an assistent-professor and then associete prosessor of Political Science. Nino has significant teaching experience (10 years at the Physics Department, TSU and 7 year at the Political Science Department, ISU). She dilivered the course of Ethnic Conflicts in Comparative Perspective at University of Helsinki, Finland.
Scientific interests / research interests
Field of Political Science/IR, specifically, ethnic conflicts, conflict transformation, resolution and peace processes.
Publications
- “Autonomy – Guarantee of Stability or Source of Secession/Irredentism” (co-author – David Aprasidze), was presented at International Peace Conference in Tbilisi; ready to publish.
- “Short – and Long-Term Effects of State Foreign Policy on Domestic Affairs”, paper (co-author – Giorgi Gvalia); in process;
- “On Concept of Irredentism – Contemporary Aspects”, paper, in process;
- Calculus of Irredentism, International Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2012.
Books
Bruce Jentleson, American Foreign Policy, 2015 (in team of translators)
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| State Institutions in the context of comparative Politics; Introduction to Comparative Politics; Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Conflicts; Statistical Methods in Political Science Peace and Conflicts Studies; Introduction to Comparative Politics; Ethnic Conflicts in Comparative Perspective, Caucasus and Central Asia (ENG); Institutions and Policy; Research Design and Methodology in Political Sciences |
- Participation in PRESTUGE (ERUSMUS+ and EU joint project); 2016-2018;
- Participation in “Conflict Transformation and Peace”, Osh, Kirgizstan, 2016
- Participation in “Scholars’ Excellence”, University of Arizona, USA, USA Department Project, 2010.