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International affairs programm lectorer returned to Fletcher school at Tufts University
International affairs programm lectorer, Kakha Khizanishvili the current director of the Police
Academy of the Republic of Georgia, returned to the Fletcher school as a guest-speaker
to speak about his experience reforming the georgian police and intelligence services and
about his country’s complex and troubled relationship with the russian government. |
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Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” movie screening
International affairs program continues movie screening for students at Amirani cinema hall Amarkordi.
On the 10-th of December was conducted movie screening of “Seven Samurai”.
The movie was produced in 1953 by Akira Kurosawa and is interesting by historical as well as theory of
Strategy point of view. The plot revolves around historically complicated period in history of Japan,
when a trend of private internecine samurai warfare led to the collapse of the centralized
Shogunate rule. Power devolved to local daimyo or warlords who competed among themselves for national
dominance. At the same time the advent of guns and gunpowder were changing the way wars were fought and
helping to make the subtle samurai fighting less dominant.
Our students will have opportunity to see the next movie, “Apocalypses Now”, at the end of January. |
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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert. S. McNamara.
International Affairs Program of School of Government provided the students with the
opportunity to see the famous documentary by Errol Morris – “The Fog of War: Eleven
Lessons from the Life of Robert. S. McNamara.” The event took place on the 12th of
November at Amirani Cinema.
This movie examines issues of war and peace in the twentieth century through the lens
of one of the century’s pivotal figures. Robert McNamara offers his account of the century
just past, as he remembers participating in it, as well as his reflections on its
meaning for the twenty-first century world.
International Affairs Program has concluded an agreement with Amirani Cinema management
and movie screenings will take place every month, thus, introducing yet another GIPA
tradition aimed at providing our students with quality learning environment. We shall
notify you of screening times regularly. |
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Georgia’s possible integration into NATO
Aleko Maisuradze – the Director of Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department –
paid visit to GIPA on the 10 th of November. The main topic of the discussion was Georgia’s
possible integration into NATO, and issues related to this development. The guest-speaker analyzed
NATO policy, gave an overview of the steps taken in order to align Georgia more closely with NATO.
He also answered students questions. |
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On October 26, expert in conflict resolution Paata Zaqareishvili spoke to international
affairs students about Abkhazia and Osetia issues.
The expert described the reasons of conflict, also current political and social processes in
above mentioned regions. At the end of the meeting Mr. Zaqareishvili donated the number of
interesting books to gipa library. |
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OSCE Ambassador to Georgia Speaks to International Affairs Students at GIPA
Ambassador Roy S. Reeve, Head of the OSCE Mission to Georgia
delivered a guest lecture at GIPA on April 12 for its International Affairs students.
Ambassador Reeve described the activities of the Mission in Georgia ranging from
its support to democratic governance and respect to the human rights to its role
as a principal actor in Georgian-South-Ossetian Conflict. |
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Harvard Professor Emeritus, Dr. Richard Pipes
spoke to the students on the process of national security making
in the United States
On June 2, Harvard Professor Emeritus of History, former head of
the CIA’s “Team – B” to review strategic intelligence, editorial
board member of the number of international scholarly journals,
and a distinguished analyst of the Soviet, Russian and Caucasian
affairs, Dr. Richard Pipes visited the institute to speak on the
process of national security making in the United States.
Dr. Pipes gave an overview of the roles of the CIA, NSC, the State Department and the
President in the making of the US national security policy. Further discussion evolved
into the analysis of the US policy of spreading democracy and state-building,
US-European friction, military aspects of the Cold War era nuclear
standoff, political and social trends in Russia and Georgia-Russian Relations. |
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Enhancing cooperation with the US academic and research institutions
Maka Ioseliani (Dean), Levan Tsutskiridze (Program Coordinator,
International Affairs) and Nino Ghonghadze (Project Assistant, Local Governance
Program) of the School of Government are currently visiting the US and its Capital
to meet with their colleagues at the institutes and think-tanks in the State
of Georgia (University of Georgia) and Washington DC. The objective of the visit
is to further the quality of teaching and research at GIPA by various cooperative
programs to be implemented in partnership with the US institutions. |
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