Nikoloz Esitashvili earned his PhD degree in International Relations in 2016 at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA. Nikoloz is a recipient of various fellowships such as Morris and Anita Broad Fellowship. His fifields of research are Political Economy, Security and Political Psychology. He follows a dispositionist-situationist framework of analysis integrating various fifields of scientific inquiry into a holistic account of social-political phenomena. He regularly publishes in international journals, and takes part in international conferences. He has worked as a Visiting Professor in International Relations at FIU, Miami in 2016-2018. Since June 2019 he has been working as a Chief Specialist of the Scientific-Research Center at David Aghmashenebeli National Defense Academy in Georgia.