Social Science in the Caucasus

Based on CRRC’s Caucasus Barometer survey data, this blog post describes how people in Georgia see the government, as a “parent” or as an “e...

The Environment and Security Initiative confirmed that climate change has already negatively impacted the South Caucasus in its 2011 stu...

As Georgia seeks a course of European integration and eventual membership in the European Union (EU), it is important to examine the Georg...

In a recent datablog , the Guardian published a map visualizing how the former Soviet countries are doing 20 years after the fall of the Sov...

By Yuliya Aliyeva Gureyeva, Baku The paper published in the 21st edition of the Caucasus Analytical Digest presents an account of how two c...

A particularly intriguing talk at TEDxYerevan was given by Tim Straight, Honorary Consul of Norway and Finland to Armenia. Is the Caucasus i...

The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), in collaboration with...

Have banking and financial services penetrated most households in the South Caucasus? Due to the topicality of finance news, an investigatio...

CRRC is happy to announce the Carnegie Research Fellowship Program (CRFP). The program offers exceptional research opportunities in the Unit...

While this post is not directly related to social sciences, maps have lots of great social science applications. You can map all kinds of da...

Christian Welzel, Professor at Jacobs University in Bremen and Vice President of the World Values Survey (WVS), held a lecture on his findi...

Indices are engaging and instructive, but some really baffle us. The World Economic Forum (WEF), the organisation that organises the annual...

So here's something that we are a little puzzled about. The Economist is undertaking a poll to see which American Presidential candidat...

Unemployment clearly is one of the pressing issues in the South Caucasus. But there is a lack of reliable data on people being without and l...

So what plagues local business? In many cases it's the same problem we have in politics as well: there simply is the wrong paradigm. It ...

Women’s participation at all levels of elections in Georgia is diminishing. As the Caucasus Women’s Network (CWN) reports, wome n in Georg...

As many of you may have heard, this week saw the launch of a competitor to Google. Cuil , which apparently is an old Irish word for knowledg...

The CRRC Data Initiative (DI) gives people an opportunity to do interesting cross-country comparisons of the South Caucasus (SC) people’s ...

Is it Europe, or is it Asia? Quite literally, where is it on the map? On a rainy Saturday afternoon we took a look at online weather sites ...

Half-serious, half-joking, the Economist put forward the Big Mac Index as a comparative tool to measure purchasing power and currency valua...