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Vice Rector for Academic Affairs/Education,
Professor of Politics and International Relations, PhD in Political Science
Jean Monnet Chair
2021 – Present
Vice Rector for Academic Affairs/Education
Ilia State University
Giorgi Gvalia is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Ilia State University, Georgia, a position he has held since September 2021. Previously, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2013–2021). His research interests include international relations theory, foreign policy analysis, European integration, and security and geopolitics in the South Caucasus. He has authored and co-authored academic publications on these subjects and has been actively involved in international research collaborations, including several projects funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. Before assuming senior university leadership positions, he worked as a Senior Adviser at the National Security Council of Georgia and as an analyst at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. In 2011, he was a visiting researcher at Arizona State University in the United States. From 2023 to 2026, he held the EU-funded Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair at Ilia State University, focusing on strengthening teaching, research, and public engagement concerning the European Union’s role as a global actor.
1. David Aprasidze, Giorgi Gvalia, National Interest and Regime Survival: Why Georgia is Cautious Towards the Russia-Ukraine War (The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 2022)
2. Giorgi Gvalia, National Security, Elite Responses and State-Building in Georgia (Ilia State University Press, 2021)
3. Archil Abashidze, Giorgi Gvalia, A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Border Corruption in the Conflict Regions in Georgia and Moldova (European Scientific Journal, Vol. 16, Issue 11, 2020)
4. Giorgi Gvalia, Bidzina Lebanidze, David S. Siroky, Neoclassical Realism and Small States: Systemic Constraints and Domestic Filters in Georgia’s Foreign Policy (East European Politics, Vol. 35, Issue 1. 2019, Routledge, Taylor&Francis Group)
5. Giorgi Gvalia, Bidzina Lebanidze, Geopolitics and Modernization: Understanding Georgia’s Pro-Western Assertiveness since the Rose Revolution (In: Modernization in Georgia: Theories, Discourses and Realities: Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe, Ed, Giga Zedania; PETER LANG Publishers, 2018)
6. David S. Siroky, Alan J. Simmons, Giorgi Gvalia, Vodka or Bourbon: Foreign Policy Preferences Toward Russia and the United States in Georgia (Foreign Policy Analysis, 2017, Vol 13, Issue 2.; pp. 500–518. Oxford University Press)
7. Giorgi Gvalia, David Siroky, Bidzina Lebanidze, Zurab Iashvili ‘Thinking Outside the Bloc: Explaining the Foreign Policies of Small States’ (Security Studies, Vol 22, Issue 1. 2013, pp. 98-131, Routledge, Taylor&Francis Group )
8. Giorgi Gvalia, Bidzina Lebanidze, Zurab Iashvili “Political Elites, Ideas and Foreign Policy: Explaining and Understanding the International Behavior of Small States in the Former Soviet Union“ (Ilia State University Press, 2011)
9. Gvalia, Giorgi. Balance of Power or Balance of Threat? Alignments in the South Caucasus (BTKK-Politics Research Group. 2008. Book)
10. Gvalia Giorgi, Kosovo Unique, Not Universal (Georgian Daily, March 2008.)
11. Гвалиа Георгий, Торговля ядерными веществами: новый вызов международной безопасности (Право и Политология №1(2). 2008)
12. Gvalia Giorgi, NATO-Intensified Dialogue (GSAC. 2007)
Book Translations from English to Georgian
1. Francis Fukuiama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehumen Times to French Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition 2012) – Translator- Ongoing;
2. Bruce Jentleson, American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (W. W. Norton & Company, 5th Edition, 2013) – Editor and Translator;
3. Janet Buttolph Johnson H. T. Reynolds, Political Science Research Methods (CQ Press; 7th edition, 2011) – Translator;
4. Thomas M. Magstadt, Understanding Politics: Ideas, Institutions, and Issues (Cengage Learning; 9 edition, 2010) – Translator
Reviewer of the Journals:
1. Foreign Policy Analysis (Oxford University Press)
2. Security Studies (Taylor & Francis Group)
3. Third World Thematics (Taylor & Francis Group)
4. Journal of Eurasian Studies (Elsevier)
