Presentation of Book”Political Elites, Ideas and Foreign Policy”
Ilia State University Bookstore “Ligamus” hosted a presentation of the book “Political Elites, Ideas and Foreign Policy: Explaining and Understanding the International Behavior of Small States in the Former Soviet Union”, as a valuable outcome of the research project supported by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN).
The authors of the book are: George Gvalia, ISU Assistant Professor, Zurab Iashvili, Researcher at the Department of Arts and Sciences and Bidzina Lebanidze, PhD at Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies. The book is published by Ilia State University Press.
ISU Professor Giga Zedania, Mr. Gvalia and Mr. Iashvili talked about the importance of the research. As they marked: “this research is based on study of the foreign policy of several post-soviet countries, opposites the widespread approach to the foreign policy of small countries in the international relations and argues that regardless of the systematic influence, Georgia has kept its pro-Western foreign policy orientation which is mainly defined by the identity of current political elite”.