Khatuna Chapichadze
(Khatuna Chapichadze is a Ph.D. in Social Sciences, political scientist, Associate Professor and a Supervisor of the Bachelor's Educational Program in European Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Engineering Economics, Media Technologies and Social Sciences, Georgian Technical University (GTU, Georgia). She has also been an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Department of Political Science, San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego (CA, United States) and a Politics Professor at San Diego State University Georgia (SDSU-G) since 2017. Prof. Chapichadze is an Expert of the Central-European Institute of Research and Strategic Analysis CIRSA, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland (since 2017) and has been a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow (Poland) (since 2015), as well as a Lecturer at the Józef Gołuchowski University of Applied Sciences, Ostrowiec Św., Poland (since 2021). Since 2015, she also serves as a Member of the Editorial Board and a Reviewer of the Scientific Journal “Ante Portas - Security Studies”, indexed in Index Copernicus and ERIH PLUS and issued by the Józef Gołuchowski University of Applied Sciences (Poland).
Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 25 January January 2025
Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies
The parliamentary elections of October 26, 2024 have been broadly regarded in Georgia, as well as outside of the country, as a de facto referendum, the most crucial one, - between the revitalization of the traditional pro-Western path of the post-Soviet Georgia towards joining the EU and NATO, and or turning the country closer to the major threat to its independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the overall security – Russia and the sphere of the influence of the latter. ... Read more