Projects

National Security and Diplomacy Course's Graduation Ceremony

On 4 of April 2014 Special Course National Security and Diplomacy for the personnel of Defence Ministry and General Stuff organized by International Centre for Geopolitical Studies was officially completed. Defence Minister Irakli Alasania and Chairman of ICGS Tengiz Pkhaladze congratulated the students on successful completion of the course and awarded them with certificates.

"During the course the participants had many discussions, specific conversations and debates; they also referred to national security, military diplomacy, military protocol and defence management issues. Civilians and military servicemen had opportunity to deepen in analysis how to manage the defence structure and make appropriate assessment of the geopolitical environment in the region", outlined Defence Minister Irakli Alasania.

Simulated negotiations: Georgia-NATO, Georgia-Russia

Guest Speakers of National Security and Diplomacy Course for Ministry of Defense and General Stuff personnel

Alexander Rondeli – President of Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies;

Zurab Bigvava - Psychologist – Lector of Caucasus University;

Irakli Sesiashvili – The chairperson of the defense and security committee of Georgia's parliament;

Irakli Menagharishvili - Director of Centre of Strategic Research (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgia);

Lectures, Presentations and Discussions at the Special Course on national Security and Diplomacy

Our leqturers:

Tengiz Pkhaladze – Chairman of the International Center for Geopolitical Studies (ICGS), Lecturer of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). Lecturer of Ilia State University;

Tornike Sharashenidze - Senior Fellow of International Center for Geopolitical Studies. Full professor and head of MA Program in international affairs of Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA);

Special Course on National Security and Diplomacy

On 16th of September 2013 Special Course on National Security and Diplomacy has opened At the International Centre for Geopolitical Studies. Within the course, employees of the Joint Staff and the Ministry of Defence will take a lectures on Economic Security, Geopolitics, Conflict and Diplomacy, the Negotiation Skills , Diplomatic Protocol and etiquette , Defense and Security , Intelligence theory, Political risk analysis.

Lectures will be delivered by the experts of ICGS.

Security Barometer

From April 2012 to March 2013 International Centre for Geopolitical Studies - ICGS (Georgia) with the partnership of Ukrainian Institute of Public Police – UIPP (Ukraine) implemented project “Security Barometer: Monitoring and Early Warning Analysis of Regional Threats to Stability and Security in Ukraine and Georgia”.

The project was aimed developing and improving capacities of non-state actors in Ukraine and Georgia for early warning analysis and field based political analysis for prevention of conflicts and instability.

Religion as the Instrument of Russian Foreign Policy towards Neighboring Countries Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine

From May to November 2012 International Centre for Geopolitical Studies (ICGS) implemented research “Religion as the Instrument of Russian Foreign Policy towards Neighboring Countries Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine”. Experts of politology from Georgia, Ukraine and Latvia were involved in this project (Tengiz Pkhaladze and Tornike Sharashenidze (Georgia), Andis Kudors (Latvia), Olexiy Haran (Ukraine)). At the end of the research the book “ Religion as the Instrument of Russian Foreign Policy towards Neighboring Countries. Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine ” was published.