{"id":4679,"date":"2017-02-06T03:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ss.ibsu.edu.ge\/ibsu\/?post_type=se&#038;p=679"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:43:45","slug":"conference-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/conference-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"CONFERENCE TOPICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<section class=\"article-content clearfix\">Applicants are encouraged to explore following topics in local as well as comparative perspectives:<\/section>\n<section><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content clearfix\"><strong>Economics<\/strong><\/section>\n<section><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content clearfix\">-Economic reforms, policies and business development in the Caucasus Region-South Caucasus economic integration with the European Union;-The devaluation of national currencies, economic challenges in the Caucasus Region;-Economic perspectives of the Caucuses Region as a transit hub between East and West;<\/p>\n<p>-Perspectives and challenges of sustainable economic growth in the Caucasus Region;<\/p>\n<p>-Unemployment and labor mobility within the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>International Relations and Political Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-The Caucasus: Challenges to regional security<\/p>\n<p>-\u201cFrozen Conflicts\u201d of the Caucasus Region &#8211; challenges and resolution agenda;<\/p>\n<p>-Threat of terrorism to the regional stability in the Caucasus;<\/p>\n<p>-Caucasus and the European integration;<\/p>\n<p>-Presence of international organizations in the Caucasus;<\/p>\n<p>-Small states in international relations;<\/p>\n<p>-South Caucasus Neighborhood Policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Administration and State Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-Public sector reforms across the Caucasus: best practices and challenges;<\/p>\n<p>-Open Government Partnership in the Caucasus\u00a0(Improving Public Services, Increasing Public Integrity, More &#8211;Effectively Managing Public Resources, Creating Safer Communities);<\/p>\n<p>-Civic Engagement in Public Policy-making in the Caucasus region;<\/p>\n<p>-Political system: general trends of development the presidential and parliamentary governance;<\/p>\n<p>-Party politics: nature of political parties and party systems;<\/p>\n<p>-Democratization and authoritarianism: challenges for democracy and authoritarianism empowering tendencies;<\/p>\n<p>-Election systems, behavior of electorate and political communication;<\/p>\n<p>-Political culture, political involvement, activism and social movements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Journalism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-Freedom of expression and challenges to regional media;<\/p>\n<p>-Media ethics in the region;<\/p>\n<p>-Information challenges related to the EU integration in Georgian Media.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interdisciplinary Section<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-General trends of sustainable development in the Caucasus Region;<\/p>\n<p>-Gender issues in the Caucasus Region;<\/p>\n<p>-Migration process in and out of the Caucasus Region;<\/p>\n<p>-Family and Marriage;<\/p>\n<p>-Deviation and the crime;<\/p>\n<p>-Education and the challenges related with it in the Caucasus Region;<\/p>\n<p>-Conflicts and their resolution;<\/p>\n<p>-Cultural Transformation in South Caucasus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applicants are encouraged to explore following topics in local as well as comparative perspectives: a Economics a -Economic reforms, policies and business development in the Caucasus Region-South Caucasus economic integration with the European Union;-The devaluation of national currencies, economic challenges in the Caucasus Region;-Economic perspectives of the Caucuses Region as a transit hub between East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-of-education-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}