Dr. Shalva Dzebisashvili is Associate Professor in political science and IR in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Georgia (UG), Tbilisi, Georgia. Being a GEM-EU Erasmus Mundus doctoral fellow, Shalva Dzebisashvili successfully defended his thesis in January 2016 and received his doctoral degree from the Free University Brussels (ULB, Belgium) and the Bielefeld University (Germany). In 2008–2009, he successfully completed his master’s degree in strategic security studies at the National Defense University (NDU, Washington) and worked as a Defense Advisor of the Georgian Ministry of Defense at the Georgian Mission to NATO (Brussels). From 2003 to 2012 and from 2017 to June 2019, he held senior positions in the Defense Policy and Planning Department of the Georgian Ministry of Defense. He is a member of several research organizations, notably the UGSPN (Security Policy and Nationalism research center of the University of Georgia), GSAC (Georgian Strategic Analysis Center) and CCDS (Civil Council on Defence and Security) and author of numerous publications. Dr. Shalva Dzebisashvili is currently directing the project on developing the national resilience/vulnerability assessment tool (model) and is involved in the international collaborative research project titled “Institutional Transformation and Social Practices in the Countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia,” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
