A Comparative Analysis of the Democracy Promotion Policy of the USA and EU in Azerbaijan (1998-2015)

Decentring EU human rights promotion: Three civil society struggles and the geo-politics of the EU's interventions in the South Caucasus

Doctoral project John Irgengioro

Doctoral project Katsiaryna Lozka

Foreign Policy Onstage. Identities and affect in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus

Funding climate transitions in Eastern Europe

LIVING IN THE SPLIT - The agency of Armenia and Georgia in-between Rusia and The EU

Spatiality as the missing link in understanding the EU-Russia conflictual relationship over the common neighbourhood: a critical geopolitical analysis of how the EU and Russia claim and shape the space between them

The European Union Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: fit for purpose? A deconstruction of the policy process of sanctions designation practices

Bordering social welfare provision: Interactions between de facto borders and civil society organizations in Abkhazia and Transnistria

Doctoral project Bruno Vandecasteele

Doctoral project Zeren Langjia

Social services within and across contested borders: insights from Transnistria, Abkhazia and Samegrelo

The political nature of international democracy support and what to do with it? A radical democratic assessment of the European Union’s support for democracy in Uganda

Competing through Culture. Comparing the EU’s and Russia’s Cultural Diplomacies in the Post-Soviet Space

‘Decentring’ the EU’s human rights promotion via civil society in the South Caucasus.

Embodying the EU's 'geopolitical turn': Everyday (in)security and alternative geopolitics in three Eastern borderlands

EMBRACing changE: Overcoming obstacles and advancing democracy in the European Neighbourhood

EU conflict mediation in its wider neighbourhood: mapping and explaining the EU’s incoherent involvement in peace-making

EU conflict mediation in its wider neighbourhood: mapping and explaining the EU’s incoherent involvement in peace-making

Post-socialist orders in the making: Governance models, welfare systems and imaginaries of ‘good life’ in Poland, Russia and Tajikistan

The European Union Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: fit for purpose? A deconstruction of the policy process of sanctions designation practices

The influence of interest groups on the EU’s foreign policy: assessing and explaining the influence of human rights NGOs on the EU’s human rights promotion in the post-Soviet space

The shared neighbourhood between the EU and Russia: from conflictual towards cooperative regional orders?

UGent Human Rights Research Network

Geopolitics in Social Welfare: Examining the Interplay of Global and Local Forces within Gendered Social Services in Georgia