Tsotne Tchanturia has a PhD in Political Science from the Corvinus University of Budapest, a Master's in European Studies from the European University of Flensburg, and a Bachelor's in Political Science from Tbilisi State University. His practical experience includes positions as a research coordinator, researcher, lecturer, and teacher. From 2015 to 2018, he served as a research coordinator at the Cold War History Research Center in Budapest. Since 2019, he has been invited to lecture at various higher educational institutions, including GIPA, Caucasus University, and the University of Georgia. Additionally, he serves as a guest teacher at the British-Georgian School in Tbilisi. Since 2024, he has been an Associate Professor at GIPA.
Courses:
- Introduction to philosophy (critical thinking);
- History of diplomacy;
- History of world civilizations;
- Cold War history;
- International Organisations and Conflicts: The League and the UN;
- The USA, 1918-41;
- Germany: Development of Dictatorship, 1918-45;
- Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905-1924;
- History of Georgia.
Publications:
Articles:
ჭანტურია, ც. (2021): კრემლის ბუფერული სისტემა ცივი ომის დროინდელ ევროპაში: რა ცვლილებებია დღევანდელი მდგომარეობით და რა არჩევანის წინაშე დგანან „აღმოსავლეთ პარტნიორობის“ ქვეყნები? ნაწილი 1. რუსეთის კვლევის ცენტრი
ჭანტურია, ც. (2021): გორბაჩოვის ფონდის საარქივო მასალების კვლევისათვის. რუსეთის კვლევის ცენტრი
Tsotne Tchanturia, "The Soviet Recognition of the Baltic Independence: The Context of Gorbachev’s Concession," Köz-Gazdaság - Review of Economic Theory and Policy, TBD.
Tsotne Tchanturia, "Georgia Dealing with Its Soviet Past: History as Mobilizing Tool in the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict," Köz-Gazdaság - Review of Economic Theory and Policy, TBD.
Tsotne Tchanturia, "In Search for the Post-Cold War Modus Vivendi in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe," Brolly – Journal of Social Sciences 2, no. 3 (2019): 91-107.
Tsotne Tchanturia, "The Nationality Politics of 1989 in the Soviet Union According to the Gorbachev Foundation Archives," Köz-gazdaság - Review of Economic Theory and Policy 14, no. 3 (2019): 136-149.
Tsotne Tchanturia and Valentina Puga, "Media and Internal Security Beyond the Liberal Narrative: The Cases of Ecuador and Georgia," Davit Aghmashenebeli National Defense Academy Proceedings 7, no. 1 (2018): 96-108.
PhD Dissertation:
Tsotne Tchanturia, Structural and Conjunctural Factors of Gorbachev’s Concessionary Policies vis-à-vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics (PhD thesis, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, 2021): https://phd.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/1208/
Editorships:
Csaba Békés and Melinda Kalmár, eds., Tsotne Tchanturia et al., assist. ed., Students of the Cold War: New Findings and Interpretations (Budapest: Corvinus University of Budapest / Komáromi Printing and Publishing LTD, 2019).
Csaba Békés, ed., Tsotne Tchanturia, and Valentina Puga, assist. eds., The Bibliography of New Cold War History: Third Enlarged Edition (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2019).
Csaba Békés, ed., Tsotne Tchanturia et al., assist. ed., The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 5 (1988–1991): Second Enlarged Edition (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2019).
Csaba Békés, ed., Tsotne Tchanturia and Valentina Puga, assist. eds., The Bibliography of New Cold War History: Second Enlarged Edition (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2018).
Csaba Békés, ed., Tsotne Tchanturia et al., assist. ed., The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 4 (1981–1987): Second Enlarged Edition (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2018).
Csaba Békés, ed., Pál Benscik, assoc. ed., Tsotne Tchanturia et al., assist. ed., The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 3 (1969–1980): Second Enlarged Edition (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2018).
Csaba Békés and G.D. Kecskés, eds., Tsotne Tchanturia, assist. ed., French Diplomatic Documents on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2017).
Csaba Békés, ed., Tsotne Tchanturia et al., assist. ed., The Bibliography of New Cold War History (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2017).
Csaba Békés, ed., Tsotne Tchanturia et al., assist. ed., The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 5 (1988–1991) (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2017).
Csaba Békés, ed., Tsotne Tchanturia et al., assist. ed., The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 4 (1981–1987) (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2017).
Csaba Békés, ed., Pál Benscik, assoc. ed., Tsotne Tchanturia et al., assist. ed., The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 3 (1969–1980) (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2016).
Research interests:
Cold War History; Eastern Bloc; Détente; The FRG’s politics during the Cold War: Westpolitik, Ostpolitik, and Deutschlandpolitik; Adaptation of the German experience for Georgia; The Gorbachev period; Gorbachev’s Policies vis-à-vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics; Disintegration of the Soviet Union; Consolidation of authoritarian regimes; The New Cold War.
