Address:
Georgia
Paliashvili st.87
Tbilisi 380062
Date
of Foundation:
The Institute for Political Science was founded on
January 27, 2000, on the basis of the Center of Scientific Information for
Social Sciences and the Research Center for National Relations.
Main
Scientific Fields:
Study of current political processes in Georgia,
geopolitical problems, foreign policy and international relations, theory of
political movements and political history, political culture and ideology,
political technologies, current ethnopolitical processes and conflict
situations, state structure and public management problems, etc.
Institute
structure:
According to the main scientific fields, the Institute
contains the following departments:
·
Department of political technologies
·
Department of conflict studies
·
Department of geopolitical research
·
Department of current politics studies
·
Department of regional politics research
·
Department of theory of politics and history of
political teachings
·
Department of political culture
·
Department of information
·
Editorial-publishing department
Director:
Vazha
Keshelava, Doctor of Philosophy, Prof.
Scientific
contacts:
The Institute has scientific contacts with the Research
Center of International Relations “East-West”, the institutes of the
Georgian Academy of Sciences: Institute of Psychology, Institute of State and
Law, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Economics, Institute of Demography
and Social Research.
Doctors
of Science: 8
Candidates
of Science: 19