2014 Archives - Page 8 of 115

Are more educated women in Georgia choosing not to have children?

28 July, 2014

Some social scientists, such as Satoshi Kanazawa, argue that a woman’s education level can impact her willingness to have children. However, Linda Hirshman, a scholar of women’s issues, questions Kanazawa’s findings by arguing that reproduction is a culturally-inflected decision. Additionally,…

WiP: Armenian Refugees, Relief and Reconstruction in Soviet Trancaucasus, July 30 – Jo Laycock

28 July, 2014

American Councils, CRRC and ARISC present the 23th and final talk in the Spring/Summer 2014 Works-in-Progress Series! Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University
“‘Peculiar problems, peculiar opportunities’ Armenian Refugees, Relief and Reconstruction in early Soviet Transcaucasia” Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at…

WiP: Anna Dolidze on Transitional Justice in Georgia, July 23 – Anna Dolidze

22 July, 2014

American Councils, CRRC and ARISC present the 22rd talk in the Spring 2014 Works-in-Progress Series! Anna Dolidze, University of Western Ontario
“Beyond the Binary of Exogenous and Endogenous Transitions: The International Governance of Transitional Justice in Georgia” Wednesday, July 23,…

Friends and Enemies in the South Caucasus

21 July, 2014

On 1 April, 2014 the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) published a blog which described a future Transcaucasian Confederation agreement signed by the three South Caucasian states. Despite the fact that the blog was an April…

Expectations and the EU Association Agreement

18 July, 2014

Today’s blog post is published in collaboration with civil.ge. One may also read the post on civil.ge here. On June 27, 2014 Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine signed EU Association Agreements. In Georgia, the signing has been celebrated as a…

WiP: Preliminary Results of the Tbilisi Archaeological Survey 2014, July 16 – Kathryn O’Neil Weber

15 July, 2014

American Councils, CRRC and ARISC present the 21nd talk in the Spring 2014 Works-in-Progress Series! Kathryn O’Neil Weber, Cornell University and ARISC Fellow
“Preliminary Results of the Tbilisi Archaeological Survey 2014” Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 6:30pm
EPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze…

When is a war not a war?

14 July, 2014

When is a war not a war? While it may seem commonsensical that a country cannot simultaneously be at war and at peace, the prevalence of several ‘frozen conflicts’ in the post-Soviet space defies simple categorization. If we take the…

WiP: Women’s Political Representation in Democratic Transition of Georgia, July 9 – Ketevan Chkheidze

9 July, 2014

American Councils, CRRC and ARISC present the 20th talk in the Spring/Summer 2014 Works-in-Progress Series! Ketevan Chkheidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
“Women’s Political Representation in Democratic Transition of Georgia” Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 6:15pm
EPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze St. 3,…