On July 7–8, Caucasus University School of Governance held the Bachelor’s Thesis Defense for students of the English-taught Diplomacy and International Relations undergraduate program.

Students presented their bachelor’s theses and key findings of their research in front of the thesis defense commission, which was composed of academic staff from the Caucasus School of Governance – Dr. Eka Akobia, Dean and Affiliated Professor; Dr.Giorgi Tskhadaia, Affiliated Professor; and Nana Pirtskhelani, Affiliated Associate Professor.

The following bachelor’s theses were presented during the defense:

• Mariam Tsaava - Energy Discoveries and Geopolitical Rivalries: Maritime Disputes and Strategic Competition in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Rati Mamaladze - Strategic Alignment: Russia and Iran under Sanctions in the Energy Geopolitics of the Caspean Sea (2014-2025)
• Mariam Ghudushauri – Cyber-Enabled Disinformation in China’s Gray-zone Strategy: the 2022 Taiwan Strait Crisis
• Nika Mazmishvili - The impact of Russian Hybrid Warfare on Georgia’s Euro- Atlantic Integration Process post-2014
• Ana Kakulia – Staying Below the Threshold of the State Responsibility: Russia’s Use of the Wagner Group in Ukraine
• Mariam Murusidze - The Role of Cyber Diplomacy in Strengthening National Resilience: The Case of Estonia
• Tata Ambroladze - Information operations as a Tool of Non-State Actors: Hamas’s Campaign against Israel after October 7
• Lizi Tsalugelashvili – Explaining the Survival of the Authoritarian Regime in the Middle East: the Case of Syria and the Importance of External Power 
• Nino Lursmanashvili – Narratives and Methods of Russian Information Operations in Armenia (2023-2025) 
• Nutsa Bakhia – The Primacy of National Interests over Islamic Values in the Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Tea Sharashidze - What Enabled the Rise of ISIS: Sectarianism, Occupation and Institutional Failure in Iraq (2003-2014)
• Ana Seturidze - Analysis of a Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan from the Realist Perspective
• Nina Mustafaeva - How Western Geopolitical Interests Shape Women’s Human Rights and International Law. Case Study: Afghanistan 2001-2021
• Giorgi Beridze - Counterterrorism in US-Pakistan Relations: The American Strategic Approach
• Karapet Samvelian – The Role and Effectiveness of Russian-Linked Political Actors and Networks in Promoting Anti-Western Narratives: A Comparative Study of Georgia and Armenia
• Rusudan vardosanidze - Strategic Adjustment Under Structural Constraints: Kazakhstan’s Policies Towards Russia Since 2022
• Ketevan Ioseliani – Liberal Democracies and Counter-Terrorism Governance: A comparative Study of Oversight Mechanisms in the United Kingdom and France, 2015-2019
• Sergi Barabadze - The Silicon Veto: Private Infrastructure and the Erosion of the State’s Monopoly on the Jus ad Bellum
•  Nikoloz Datebashebashvili – Memes are one of the Most Overlooked and Effective and Effective Propaganda Strategies used in Modern Hybrid Warfare
• NIkoloz Sreseli - Analyzing the Failure of the International Community During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
• Elene Kikolashvili - The Responsibility to Protect (R2R) and 2011 Lybia Intervention: A Turning Point in International Norms?