Ketevan Bolkvadze
Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Lund University
Ketevan Bolkvadze is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science in Lund.
She has previously been a Crafoord fellow at Harvard University (2023) and a visiting scholar at Uppsala University (2015). Ketevan holds a PhD from the University of Gothenburg (2018), and an MA in European Studies from Maastricht University (2013). Her research interests include democratization and hybrid regimes, with a focus on good governance, justice, and security reforms in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. More broadly, she’s interested in how to make democratic governance work, how to incentivize politicians to shift from short to long time-horizons and prompt them to provide better public services to their citizens.
In addition to her academic work, Ketevan also serves (or has served) as a consultant for Freedom House (NiT Advisor), the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (External Consultant), and the Georgian Institute of Politics (Board Member).”
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Doors unlock and open? Hybrid regimes and foreign interferences in the eastern neighbourhood
Summary This paper examines the dynamics of hybrid regimes in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, focusing on their susceptibility to foreign interference amidst geopolitical tensions. It explores how these regimes, characterized by a mix of democratic and authoritarian practices, create fertile grounds for external actors like Russia, China, and Turkey to…
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Ex-footballer appointed as Georgia’s new president amid ongoing public protests
The recent appointment of former footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili as Georgia’s president highlights the deepening crisis of democracy in the country. Chosen through indirect elections by a parliament whose legitimacy is already under question due to allegations of widespread electoral fraud in the October 2024 elections, Kavelashvili’s appointment has been widely…
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Hybridity and hybrid regimes in the Eastern Neighbourhood in a time of war and increased geopolitical tensions
This background paper delivers a comprehensive understanding of the post- independence trajectories of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine toward the consolidation of hybridity, understood as a distinct type of regime that oscillates between democratic and authoritarian practices of power.