Ghia Nodia ( ka, გია ნოდია) (born 4 September 1954, Moscow, USSR) is a Georgian

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who served as the Minister of Education and Science in the

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from 31 January 2008 until 10 December 2008. Nodia graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...

(TSU) in 1976 and worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the Georgian Academy of Sciences from 1980 to 2001. He has lectured at the TSU, the

Ilia State University Ilia State University ISU ( ka, ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი) is a public university in Tbilisi, Georgia that was founded in 2006 as a result of a merger of six different academic institution ...

, and in the West. Since 1992, he has chaired the

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-based

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Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development. He was Minister of Education and Science in 2008. He is currently a director at the International School of Caucasus Studies at the Ilia State University. Nodia regularly publishes on issues of democracy, nationalism, and regional politics. His "Nationalism and Democracy" (1992) article in the Journal of Democracy is one of the most widely cited pieces of any Georgian scholar, in recent decades.

Selected publications

* Nodia, G. (1992). Nationalism and democracy. Journal of Democracy, 3, 3. * Nodia, G. and Scholtbach, A.P., The Political Landscape of Georgia: Political Parties, University of Chicago Press, 2006 * Nodia, G. (2014). The revenge of geopolitics. J. Democracy, 25, 139. * Nodia, G. "The end of the postnational illusion." Journal of Democracy 28.2 (2017): 5-19.

References

Sources

Ghia Nodia's article
in the ''

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