Associate Professor in Comparative Politics and International Relations
Mikheil Shavtvaladze was awarded a Ph.D. in Political Science from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and a Master’s degree in Political Science from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary).
He has robust academic experience teaching in various state and private universities. He has participated in numerous international and local conferences and workshop programs and was a Marie Curie Fellow at Vilnius University (EU Project) in 2015-2016. M. Shavtvaladze was also a returning scholar for the Academic Support Program (HESP-AFP of Open Society Georgia Foundation) at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University’s Department of International Relations (2012-2015). He has several scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals and publishing houses on the topics of politics.
Publications
● Shavtvaladze, M. (2021). The Consociational Democratic Model in a post-Soviet Multi-Ethnic State (the Case of Georgia). PhD Thesis. Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University’s Publishing House
● Shavtvaladze, M. (2018). The State and Ethnic Minorities: The Case of Georgia. Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia 7(1), 43-68. Slavica Publishers
● Shavtvaladze, M. (2014). Challenges that Global Governance Currently Confronts to Ensure More Secure, Prosperous and Democratic World. POLITIKON, Volume 23, 164-17. IAPSS Journal of Political Science
● Shavtvaladze, M. (2013). Effects of Democratic Citizenship on Pursuing Global Justice: from the perspective of the post-Soviet Georgia. POLITIKON, Vol. Nr. 20, Issue 1, 81-90. IAPSS Journal of Political Science
● Shavtvaladze, M. (2012). Electoral Reform in a Post-Soviet Republic: the case of Georgia. POLITIKON, Vol. 18, Issue 1, 21-34. IAPSS Journal of Political Science
Shavtvaladze, M. (2010). Attempts to build Democratic Nation-State in an Ethnically Diverse Country: the case of Georgia. Master thesis. Central European University