{"id":355,"date":"2024-03-12T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2024-03-12T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:01:22","slug":"gela-merabishvili","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/?page_id=355","title":{"rendered":"Gela Merabishvili"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/d3445-img_20211202_135121-scaled-1-747x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/d3445-img_20211202_135121-scaled-1-747x1024.jpeg 747w, https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/d3445-img_20211202_135121-scaled-1-219x300.jpeg 219w, https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/d3445-img_20211202_135121-scaled-1-768x1053.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/d3445-img_20211202_135121-scaled-1-1120x1536.jpeg 1120w, https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/d3445-img_20211202_135121-scaled-1-1494x2048.jpeg 1494w, https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/d3445-img_20211202_135121-scaled-1.jpeg 1867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Gela Merabishvili is an associated researcher at CSS (Tbilisi) and a post-doctoral researcher at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (Budapest). He specializes in the political geography of territorial conflicts, nationalism and borders, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region. He holds a PhD degree in Planning, Governance and Globalization (Virginia Tech, 2020) and two Master\u2019s Degrees in the EU foreign affairs (Maastricht University, 2012) and regional politics in the Caucasus (Tbilisi State University, 2013). Between 2014 and 2016, he worked as a researcher on the EU Neighborhood Policy in the Caucasus region at the Centre for European Policy Studies and at the European Stability Initiative (both in Brussels).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gela Merabishvili is an associated researcher at CSS (Tbilisi) and a post-doctoral researcher at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (Budapest). He specializes in the political geography of territorial conflicts, nationalism and borders, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region. 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