Nona Mikhelidze

Position: 
Head of the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Programme
Email: 
Contact person by email
Expertise: 
Caucasus
ENP
Conflict resolution
Russia
Turkey

Nona Mikhelidze holds a PhD in Political Science from Scuola normale superiore (Pisa), and a M.A. in Regionalism: Central Asia and Caucasian Studies from the Humboldt University Berlin (HU), where she was awarded with the Volkswagen Foundation Scholarship as a Research Fellow. She holds also B.A. and M.A. degrees in International Relations from the Tbilisi State University. Her research interests include the ENP and conflict resolution in the South Caucasus, the Wider Black Sea and regional cooperation, Turkey and Caspian Region, and Russian foreign policy in the ex-Soviet space.

Russia and the COVID-19 Crisis: Hardship at Home, Soft Power Flexing Abroad

Nona Mikhelidze
Rome, IAI, April 2020, 5 p.
In: IAI Commentaries

Italy Sidelined As Russia Consolidates Position in Libya

Nona Mikhelidze
Rome, IAI, June 2019, 4 p.
In: IAI Commentaries

Italy and Russia: New Alignment or More of the Same?

Nona Mikhelidze
Rome, IAI, April 2019, 5 p.
In: IAI Commentaries

L'Italia al bivio. Rapporto sulla politica estera italiana, Edizione 2018

Ettore Greco,
Rome, Nuova Cultura, July 2018, 186 p.
In: Quaderni IAI

Implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement

Nona Mikhelidze
in Anna Zygierewicz (ed.), Association agreements between the EU and Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine. European Implementation Assessment, Brussels, European Parliament, June 2018 (EPRS Ex-Post Evaluation Unit Study), p. 113-159
In: Other papers/articles

EU Global Strategy, Resilience of the East European Societies and the Russian Challenge

Nona Mikhelidze
in Kornely Kakachia, Stefan Meister and Benjamin Fricke (eds.), Geopolitics and Security. A New Strategy for the South Caucasus, Tbilisi/Berlin, KAS/GIP/DGAP, 2018, p. 266-282
In: Other papers/articles

Turkey's Policy in the Black Sea Region: Oscillating between Pragmatism and Opportunism

Nona Mikhelidze
in Sasha Toperich, Aylin Ünver Noi (eds.), Turkey and Transatlantic Relations, Washington, Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2017, p. 133-148
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Italy and Eastern Europe: A Dossier Subordinated to the Rome-Moscow Axis?

Nona Mikhelidze
Tbilisi, Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), 2017, 5 p. (GIP Policy Memo)
In: Other papers/articles

The Moscow-Ankara Energy Axis and the Future of EU-Turkey Relations

Nona Mikhelidze, Nicolò Sartori, Oktay F. Tanrisever [...]
Cologne, University of Cologne, September 2017, 18 p.
In: FEUTURE Papers

The South Caucasus in the European Union's Perspective: Not a Single Region

Nona Mikhelidze
in Shireen T. Hunter (ed.), The New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus. Prospects for Regional Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2017, p. 155-173 (Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures)
In: Other papers/articles