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Luka Ekhvaia is a scholar with a rich interdisciplinary academic background and research experience across the humanities and social sciences. He currently serves as the Lead Research Fellow at the Center for International Policy Research and Forecasting (CIPRF).
He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Bologna, where he studied in the Political Science Department’s interdisciplinary program in East European Studies and Teaching. He spent a year conducting research for his master’s thesis at Corvinus University of Budapest. Later, Luka became an associate member and PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Global and Area Studies at Leipzig University, while simultaneously working as a research associate at the Leibniz Science Center “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA). During the COVID-19 pandemic, he continued his doctoral research at Caucasus International University in Georgia.
His dissertation, titled “Politics of Memory and Its Mechanisms in Post-Soviet Georgia,” examines the phenomenon of collective memory and its political instrumentalization using Georgia as a case study. The work provides a retrospective overview of how collective memory has historically been subjected to political manipulation — from ancient Greece and Rome, where it served as a tool for legitimizing, re-legitimizing, or delegitimizing power structures, to the contemporary post-Soviet context.
The dissertation gives special attention to the role of collective memory in identity construction and explores the correlations between models of memory politics and political systems. It also analyzes psychological factors that function at the intersection of individual and collective memory. Luka employs both established theoretical-methodological frameworks from memory studies and his own interpretive paradigm — quantum-relativist noology — to approach these issues from a new angle.
His research identifies the dual nature of memory politics in post-Soviet Georgia: on one hand, the development of memory mechanisms aimed at national self-determination and global positioning; on the other, the rewriting of history and the formation of new identities as a means of stabilizing political systems. The work argues that in many instances, memory politics has served as a tool for the ongoing re-legitimization of ruling political elites.
Luka Ekhvaia’s academic interests include critical theories of international relations, memory studies, memory politics and identity, world-systems theory, theories of structural imperialism and cyclical hegemony, political ideologies and systems, transformations of international political order, post-Soviet transition, contemporary Georgian history, radical left movements and resistance, political philosophy, the history of global pandemics, and the socio-economic dimensions of artificial intelligence.
His work is marked by a high level of theoretical sophistication and analytical depth, making him one of the most intellectually distinctive figures in the Georgian academic landscape. Luka’s research integrates historical, philosophical, psychological, and international political perspectives into a cohesive and innovative body of thought.
Luka Ekhvaia is a scholar with a rich interdisciplinary academic background and research experience across the humanities and social sciences. He currently serves as the Lead Research Fellow at the Center for International Policy Research and Forecasting (CIPRF).
He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Bologna, where he studied in the Political Science Department’s interdisciplinary program in East European Studies and Teaching. He spent a year conducting research for his master’s thesis at Corvinus University of Budapest. Later, Luka became an associate member and PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Global and Area Studies at Leipzig University, while simultaneously working as a research associate at the Leibniz Science Center “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA). During the COVID-19 pandemic, he continued his doctoral research at Caucasus International University in Georgia.
His dissertation, titled “Politics of Memory and Its Mechanisms in Post-Soviet Georgia,” examines the phenomenon of collective memory and its political instrumentalization using Georgia as a case study. The work provides a retrospective overview of how collective memory has historically been subjected to political manipulation — from ancient Greece and Rome, where it served as a tool for legitimizing, re-legitimizing, or delegitimizing power structures, to the contemporary post-Soviet context.
The dissertation gives special attention to the role of collective memory in identity construction and explores the correlations between models of memory politics and political systems. It also analyzes psychological factors that function at the intersection of individual and collective memory. Luka employs both established theoretical-methodological frameworks from memory studies and his own interpretive paradigm — quantum-relativist noology — to approach these issues from a new angle.
His research identifies the dual nature of memory politics in post-Soviet Georgia: on one hand, the development of memory mechanisms aimed at national self-determination and global positioning; on the other, the rewriting of history and the formation of new identities as a means of stabilizing political systems. The work argues that in many instances, memory politics has served as a tool for the ongoing re-legitimization of ruling political elites.
Luka Ekhvaia’s academic interests include critical theories of international relations, memory studies, memory politics and identity, world-systems theory, theories of structural imperialism and cyclical hegemony, political ideologies and systems, transformations of international political order, post-Soviet transition, contemporary Georgian history, radical left movements and resistance, political philosophy, the history of global pandemics, and the socio-economic dimensions of artificial intelligence.
His work is marked by a high level of theoretical sophistication and analytical depth, making him one of the most intellectually distinctive figures in the Georgian academic landscape. Luka’s research integrates historical, philosophical, psychological, and international political perspectives into a cohesive and innovative body of thought.
საერთაშორისო პოლიტიკის კვლევისა და პროგნოზირების ცენტრის დამფუძნებელი და პრეზიდენტი.კვლევითი მიმართულებები: საერთაშორისო ურთიერთობები; საერთაშორისო პოლიტიკა; საერთაშორისო პოლიტიკური წესრიგი; გლობალური მმართველობა; პოლიტიკური სისტემები და იდეოლოგიები; მმართველობის დემოკრატიული მოდელები; პოლიტიკური კულტურა; პოლიტიკური ელიტები; გეოპოლიტიკა; სახელმწიფოს უსაფრთხოება; პოსტსაბჭოთა საქართველო; საქართველოს უახლესი ისტორია; დემოკრატიზაციისა და ტრანსფორმაციის თეორიები; პოლარიზაცია; გლობალიზაცია და ნაციონალიზმი.
კავკასიის საერთაშორისო უნივერსიტეტი - სოციალური მეცნიერებების ფაკულტეტი - პოლიტიკის მეცნიერების დოქტორი.საკვლევი თემა: პოსტსაბჭოთა საქართველოს პოლიტიკური განვითარების პრობლემები და პერსპექტივები
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