George Mchedlishvili

Dr. George Mchedlishvili is a CERES Visiting Researcher for the Spring 2016 semester, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment Fellowship. While at CERES, Dr. Mchedlishvili is researching the foreign policy trajectories of the South Caucasus States.  Earlier in his career, Dr. Mchedlishvili was a student in the Physics Department at the Tbilisi State University. However, as Georgia went through dramatic political developments in the 1990s, he was prompted to switch careers, instead analyzing the political developments of his own country and the rest of the Soviet Union. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Coordinator of the Caucasus Studies M.A. program at the International Black Sea University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Previously, he served in in the Policy Planning Division and the Georgian National Commission for UNESCO within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Dr. Mchedlishvili also holds a Ph.D. in World History from Tbilisi State University and a Masters of Education from Harvard University.

Dr. Mchedlishvili will also present his talk The United States and the South Caucasus: Successes, Setbacks and Adjustmentson Monday, April 18, 2016 at 12:00 PM in Room 302-P in the Bunn Intercultural Center.