Giorgio Comai | Law and Government
Giorgio Comai
MA in East European Studies and degree in Political Science from the University of Bologna.
Exchange student at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and Russian State University for the Humanities in
Moscow, Russia.
From 2009 to 2013, he was regional editor and researcher at Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso. He has carried out
research for the Institute for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe of Bologna University.
He is member of the board of directors of Asiac, Italy’s academic association for the study of Central Asia and the
Caucasus. His research has focused on youth policies in Russia and on de facto states in the post-Soviet space.
Website: www.giorgiocomai.eu
Supervisor: Dr Donnacha Ó Beacháin
PhD research project: Beyond recognition. The foreign policies and external relations of de facto states in the post-Soviet space
Publications:
Comai Giorgio (2014), “L’Abkhazia dipende da Mosca, suo malgrado”, in Limes – Rivista italiana di geopolitica, n. 2, pp. 197–202.
Comai Giorgio (2013), “Sovereignty Conflicts and Minority Protection: the Case of Abkhazia” in Self-determination and sovereignty in Europe, Angelo Longo, Ravenna. [ISBN 9788880637608]
Comai Giorgio (2012), “Youth Camps in Post-Soviet Russia and the Northern Caucasus: The Cases of Seliger and Mashuk 2010”, Anthropology of East Europe Review 30, N. 1, pp. 184–212. [ISSN 1054-4720]
Comai Giorgio (2011), “Russia”, in Guida ai paesi dell’Europa centrale orientale e balcanica – Annuario politico-economico 2010, Il Mulino, Bologna [ISBN 9788815150264]
Comai Giorgio (2011), Politiche giovanili e campi patriottici in Caucaso del nord. Il caso di Mašuk, OBC Occasional Papers, dicembre 2011.
Comai Giorgio (2011). “Prefazione” in Lorusso, M., Georgia, vent’anni dopo l’URSS, Aracne Editrice, Roma. [ISBN 9788854844667]
Comai Giorgio (2010), “Il conflitto russo-georgiano in Ossezia del Sud”, in Guida ai paesi dell’Europa centrale orientale e balcanica – Annuario politico-economico 2009, Il Mulino, Bologna. [ISBN 9788815138002]
Comai Giorgio and Bernardo Venturi (2010), “Introduzione”, in Fassino Gughi, Transnistria, Silvy Edizioni, Trento. [ISBN 9788890497506]
“Bielorussia" and “Il biennio Kaczyński”, in Guida ai paesi dell'Europa centrale orientale e balcanica. Annuario politico-economico. 2008, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2010 [ISBN 9788815130938]
Book review of «Everyday Life in Central Asia», edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russel Zanca, eds, Nationalities Papers, Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2009, p. 130-131 [ISSN: 0090-5992]
"Bielorussia" and “Polonia”, in "Guida ai paesi dell'Europa centrale orientale e balcanica. Annuario politico-economico. 2007", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008.
Book review of «From Sovietology to Postcoloniality», edited by Janusz Korek, Nationalities Papers, Vol. 36, No. 4, September 2008, p. 778- 780 [ISSN: 0090-5992]
Book review of «Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime» edited by Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Neil Munro, Nationalities Papers, Vol. 36, No. 3, July 2008, p. 582-584. [ISSN: 0090-5992]