Dec 19, 2018 | Current Events, DMGS News, Professional Students
Igharkava concludes, “Russia is spreading fear that Georgia could lose its national identity if it moves closer towards Europe. If unchecked, these far-right attitudes have the potential to become strong wedges between Georgia and the West, paralyzing the country and instigating national security issues as impediments to Georgia’s pro-Western agenda.”
Dec 10, 2018 | Current Events, DMGS News, Professional Students, Speaker Series
The conflict which erupted in eastern Ukraine lingers on. Officially it is peace, but when the night falls, gunfire starts again. On and on again. In the pain and suffering of the war, new unrecognized states are born near Donetsk and Lugansk.
Dec 4, 2018 | Current Events, DMGS News, Professional Students
Irakli Jgharkava takes on media polarization in the country of Georgia, which he views as an “immediate threat to democracy” in his article Media Polarization: A Challenge for Georgian Democracy? published online by the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP). Although he already holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, a Master’s degree from the Department of European Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Europe, and a second Master’s degree in Nationalism and Ethnicity Studies from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and serves as an Affiliated Policy Analyst at GIP, Irakli is pursuing a third master’s degree [in subject?] from Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security.
