Dr. Salome Minesashvili

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

 
Email: minesashvili@uni-bremen.de

 

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Aktuelles Forschungsprojekt (2025–2028)

“Changing EU policies in times of war: How increasing EU acceptance affects European identities in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine?”
 

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

• Beziehungen zwischen der EU und ihrer östlichen Nachbarschaft
• Transformationsprozesse in der postsowjetischen Region
• Außenpolitikanalyse
• Identitätspolitik
• Soft Power-Politik

 
Ausbildung

2015 – 2019 Promotion (PhD) in Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin. Thema: „Europäische Identitätsdiskurse jenseits der Gemeinschaft: Wandel in Krisenzeiten in Georgien und der Ukraine“

2011 – 2012 MSc International Political Theory, University of Edinburgh.

2010 – 2013 MSc Transformation in the South Caucasus, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

09/2006 – 08/2010 BA International Relations, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

 
Berufserfahrung

Seit 2025 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (FSO) an der Universität Bremen und der ETH Zürich, gefördert im Rahmen der Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships.

2013 – 2025 Wissenschaftlerin und Forschungskoordinatorin, Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), Tbilisi.

2013 – 2025 Unabhängige Forscherin: Freedom House (USA), V-Dem Institute (Schweden), Polis (Deutschland), Norwegian Institute of International Affairs NUPI (Norwegen), New Europe Center (Ukraine), Strategeast (USA).

2021 – 2022 Wissenschaftlerin im Projekt German-Ukrainian Researchers Network (GURN), Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Berlin.

2019 – 2020 Programmassistentin im PhD Support Programme EUCACIS, Centre international de formation europèenne (CIFE), Berlin.

2013 Forschungsstipendiatin im Programm für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Center for Social Sciences (CSS), Tbilisi.

2011 Forschungsstipendiatin, Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), Tbilisi.
 
      
                          
Lehrtätigkeit

2023 – 2025    International Relations Theories and Negotiations, École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), Berlin. 
                                 
2019 – 2025    Introduction to Politics, École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), Berlin.
                       
2023   Regional Affairs of Eurasia, Technische Universität Dresden.
                                 
2017 – 2018   Regional Politics in Eurasia, Freie Universität Berlin.
                                 
 

Publikationen
 
Monographien
 
Minesashvili, S. 2022. European identities during wars and revolutions: change during crises in Georgia and Ukraine. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
 
 
Zeitschriftenaufsätze und Sammelbandbeiträge
 
Wilhelmsen, J. and Minesashvili, S. 2025. Proxy games and freezing conflict: Trilateral identifications, fear and agency in Russian-Georgian relations post-Crimea. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2688940
 
Kakachia, K., Minesashvili, S., Kandelaki, S. and Lebanidze, B. 2025. Contested securitization of migration in the post-Soviet space: The case of Russian migrants in Georgia. International Spectator, 60(2): 114-129.
 
Minesashvili, S. Labarre F. and Jolicoeur, P. 2023. Dealing with Russia: Georgia`s endeavour to escape Trampling. In: Roberge, I., Park, N. and Klasse, T. R. (eds.). Asymmetric neighbours and international relations: Living in the shadow of elephants. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
 
Minesashvili, S. 2023. Policy analysis toolbox. In: Melnyk, L. and Christoph, L. (eds.). Berlin: Institute of European Politics. Chapter 1, 2 and 4 (co-authored).
 
Minesashvili, S. 2022. Before and after 2014: Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its impact on European identity discourses in Ukraine. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 23(3): 461-487.
 
Minesashvili, S. 2022. The Georgian Orthodox Church as a foreign policy actor. In: German, T., Jones, S.F. and Kakachia, K. (eds.). Georgia`s foreign policy in the 21st century: Challenges for a small state. London: I.B. Tauris.
 
Minesashvili, S. 2021. Europe in Georgia`s identity discourse: Contestation and the impact of external developments. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 54 (1-2): 128-155.
 
Kakachia, K., Minesashvili, S. and Kakhishvili, L. 2018. Change and continuity in the foreign policies of small states: elite perceptions and Georgia`s foreign policy towards Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 70 (5), 814-831.
 
Minesashvili, S. 2017. Orthodoxy as soft power in Russia-Georgia relations. In: Joedicke, A. (ed.). 2017. Religion and soft power in the South Caucasus. Routledge.
 
Minesashvili, S. 2017. Well-being and migration. In: Zarembo, K. (ed.). 2017. Ukrainian generation: attitudes and values. Kyiv: New Europe Center. 
 
Minesashvili, S. 2016. Belonging and alterity in Georgia`s foreign policy. In: Kakachia, K. and Markarov, A. (eds.). 2016. Values and identity as sources of foreign policy in Armenia and Georgia. Tbilisi: Universal. 
 
Kakachia, K. and Minesashvili, S. 2015. Identity politics: exploring Georgian foreign policy behavior. Journal of Eurasian Studies, 6 (2), 171-180.
 
Minesashvili, S. and Kakhishvili, L. 2015. Georgia: foreign policy identity in the domestic arena as a subject of contestation. Caucasus Analytical Digest, 77.