Employ qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze domestic and foreign politics in the Caucasus, with a focus on the Republic of Georgia
Illuminate the politics of the region for international audiences through our work both in Williamsburg and with partners in the region
Provide rigorous undergraduate research opportunities across a variety of academic disciplines
CURRENT PROJECTS
This project investigates the use of U.S sanctions in the Republic of Georgia and what it is meant to communicate to the country. It also reviews reactions to these sanctions in Georgia.
The purpose of this project is to determine how development agencies and donors, Georgian non-governmental organizations, and Georgian civil society interact with one another to achieve sustainable outcomes in natural resource management. Georgian civic engagement in development is pivotal to ensuring that programs implemented are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable. The approaches that foreign aid agencies and donors employ affect the extent to which civil society is engaged in the process. Through semi-structured interviews, we aim to uncover the differences in approaches by each of these actors and how those differences manifest themselves in environmental and social outcomes in Georgia.
Georgia was the largest non-NATO contributor to the War on Terror. As a result, both the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are significant times in Georgian history. The goal of the Georgian Veterans Project is to catalog the opinions of those who have experience with Georgia-West relations and the war on terror through conducting interviews.
Democracy in Motion is an oral history project of Russian nationals living in Tbilisi, Georgia, who moved to the city following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. During the summer of 2023, IPAC/GRI Summer Fellows conducted interviews in Russian, and following this, the team is now creating transcripts in Russian and English.
Contact Professor Daniel Maliniak at dxmali@wm.edu for more information on the research IPAC is conducting.