SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Political Science
Position:Associate Professor





PhD in Political Science, Univeristy of Zurich (2014-2018), Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, IERES, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington Univeristy (2019-2020).

Scientific interests / research interests

Comparative politics, democratization, political violence, democracy promotion and autocracy promotion

Featured publications

Burkadze, Zarina. “How Covid-19 is Shaping Georgian Democracy,” In One Year with Covid-19 edited by Christian Ewert and Lea Heyne, Democracy Net, 2021: 135-141, https://democracynet.eu/ & https://www.bod.de/buchshop/one-year-with-covid-19-9783753402284

Burkadze, Zarina. Competing foreign influences and domestic coordination in democratizing Georgia: EU, NATO, US, and Russia. Dissertation (monographical). https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/165312/  University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts, 2018.

Current Courses

Course Catalog

Research Design in Political Science; Democracy and Democratization; Conflict Studies Causes and Consequences

Transition and Democratization in Post-Soviet States, Bachelor’s Degree, University of Zurich, Spring 2018. https://studentservices.uzh.ch/uzh/anonym/vvz/index.html#/details/2017/004/E/50874430