Rate My Professor Giorgi Gvalia

Gvalia's research interests encompass theories of international relations, foreign policies of small states, alliances in international relations, public opinion and foreign policy, and Europeanization in the post-Soviet space. His influential publications include the article “Thinking Outside the Bloc: Explaining the Foreign Policies of Small States” published in Security Studies (2013, co-authored with David Siroky, Bidzina Lebanidze, and Zurab Iashvili), the book Political Elites, Ideas and Foreign Policy: Explaining and Understanding the International Behavior of Small States in the Former Soviet Union (Ilia State University Press, 2011, with Bidzina Lebanidze and Zurab Iashvili), “Neoclassical Realism and Small States: Systemic Constraints and Domestic Filters in Georgia’s Foreign Policy” in East European Politics (2019, with Bidzina Lebanidze and David S. Siroky), and “Geopolitics and Modernization: Understanding Georgia’s Pro-Western Assertiveness since the Rose Revolution” (2018, with Bidzina Lebanidze). Other works cover national security, elite responses, and state-building in Georgia (2022). Gvalia has been awarded the Ilia Chavchavadze Fellowship Program for Young Scholars (2009), participated in TEMPUS Program as Invited Scholar at University of Montpellier III (2009), and received scholarships from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Social and Strategic Research Foundation (2006). He serves as a reviewer for leading journals including Foreign Policy Analysis, Security Studies, and others, and was President of the Georgian Association for Public Opinion Research (2021-2023).