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Jones, S. and Darchiashvili, D. (2020). Warlords, Generals, and Politicians – A History of Civil-Military Relations in Georgia. Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Stephen Jones was appointed director of the Georgian Studies Program and lecturer in Government at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, (beginning January 2021).


Stephen Jones has been named the first director of the new Program on Georgian Studies at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, a new initiative made possible by a research award from the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.


Stephen Jones, taking advantage of phased retirement, co-founded and is co-Director of the Master's program in Modern Georgian History at Ilia State University, Georgia (country).


Stephen Jones made two presentations in October: 1.) “Building Social Democracy: The First Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-21)” Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research Center (RUCARR), Malmö University, Sweden, October 26, 2020. 2).  “Georgia’s Pivotal Election” (A panel Discussion) Carnegie Foundation Europe, October 15, 2020.


And Neil Macfarlane co-edited a volume published by the University of Toronto Press this month (September). See Jones, S.F.,& Macfarlane, Neil. (2020) Georgia: from Autocracy to Democracy, Toronto, Canada: Univ. of Toronto Press. It includes a contribution from alum Natalie Sabanadze, the current Georgian ambassador to the EU and Luxembourg in Brussels. Jones also published with David Darchiashvili): Darchiashvili, D. & Jones, S.F. (2020, September 28) Georgia: warlords, generals, and politiciansOxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, OUP. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1891


“Social Democracy in Georgia,” Lecture to Georgian Association in the USA, July 22, 2020.


Stephen Jones “Recurrent Patterns in Georgian Politics: Culture, Geography and Institutions,” Keynote Speaker, 8th International Scientific Conference, “Space, Society, Politics” Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University,  25-27 June, 2020


Stephen Jones “The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918-1921: Europe Comes to Georgia,” Keynote Speaker for 10th Anniversary of WIP (Works in Progress) Series, (ARISC and CRRC), Tbilisi, May 13, 2020