Academic Staff

Tornike Sharashenidze

Head of BA and MA programs in International Relations / Professor

Email: t.sharashenidze@gipa.ge

Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in Public Administration (GIPA). Served as an analyst for National Security Council staff, foreign affairs assistant of Prime-Minister, director of Information Center on NATO (2002-2006).  Also worked as a chairman of board for International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy and executive secretary for State Commission for Historical Truth (2010-2012). He is also an editor of GIPA Journal of Politics and Democratization (an academic journal). Has cooperated with a number of European think-tanks and online journals (European Council on Foreign Relations, International Politics and Society, Austrian Institute for Security Policy Analysis). He is an author of trilogy on diplomatic history.

 

Courses: 

  • Introduction to Theories of International Relations;
  • Introduction to World Politics;
  • History of Diplomacy, 19th century;
  • History of Diplomacy, 20th century;
  • Intelligence Studies;
  • Cinema and Politics;
  • Russian Foreign Policy;

 

Research and Publications:

History of Diplomacy, 1920-1939 (Sulakauri Publishing House. 2021)