Experts - Georgia
Georgia
Experts By Location
- Bosnia
- DPRK
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Kosovo
- Libya
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- Turkey
Political Tours provided a really excellent 10-day tour of Kosovo for our students. Everything was very professionally organised, with a full timetable of varied meetings, lectures and site visits, and all our group came back with a very good overview of the real political situation on the ground. I’d highly recommend them to other universities and institutes organising political study tours.
Senior Lecturer, Bradford University's Centre for International Cooperation and Security (CICS), UK
Professor S. Neil MacFarlane
Neil MacFarlane is head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations, at the University of Oxford. Previously he was professor of International Relations at Queen’s University (Canada), and assistant and associate professor of Government at the University of Virginia. He has also directed the Center for Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Virginia, the Centre for International Relations at Queen’s University, and the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University.
He has written extensively on theoretical aspects of the concept of security, Soviet and Russian foreign policy, nationalism and national liberation, intervention, humanitarian action and its relationship to peacekeeping, the responses of states and international organizations to civil conflicts (particularly in the Caucasus and Central Asia), and state and system formation in the former Soviet Union. He is currently working on a study of the emergence of international relations in the former Soviet region.
He also has broad experience of professional training for mid-career defence personnel and diplomats and has served as a consultant to UNDP and UNOCHA, the Canadian and US governments, various private corporations, and the Soros Foundation. In 2007, he was appointed to a three year term on the Research Grants Board of the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council.
He is a visiting professor at the Centre for Social Sciences, Tbilisi State University, and an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He has held research posts or visiting professorships at Harvard University, the University of British Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, the College of Europe, and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Nanyang University, Singapore).
