Gela Merabishvili
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Gela Merabishvili
@gmerabishv.bsky.social
Political geography postdoc at KU Leuven
Research: borders/territory, security and conflicts
Current project: EU in the Black Sea https://research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/project/3E241158
Schumann today
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A Finnish border town economically affected by the closure of the border with Russia: "Whatever its future, Imatra won’t build itself around Russia again. 'Russian money was easy, but it left us with services oversized for the town. The easy money is gone.'”
archive.vn/T6KHW
November 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today at KU Leuven, Karst Berkenbosch @berkenboschk.bsky.social presented his PhD research on everyday geopolitics in the Gulf of Saint Malo. The research explores territorial issues in the local fishing industry after Brexit.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Schuman today
November 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Euro-patriotism?
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Metaphors we live by
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
real(estate)politik
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
September 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This border security initiative stretches along the borders with Russia/Belarus but as far as I understand, Polish 'East Shield' also covers the Ukrainian section of the eastern border. Other EU/NATO members bordering Ukraine (Slovakia, Hungary and Romania) haven't pursued such border measures.
September 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is a map of last night's drone incursion into Poland, posted by Mykhailo Podolyak. It's probably not super-accurate, but it shows that at least some of the 19 drones that entered Polish airspace passed through Ukraine, while the rest thru Belarus. This is interesting from a border security pov.
September 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
2. Half of the population (48%) views the EU in neutral terms and only 43% has a positive image. So, basically, a large chunk of those who say they would vote for EU membership think, 'Yeah, whatever, I guess so.' In other words, EU is a generally good but abstract idea.
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
My attempts at mapmaking for an article on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border as part of the longer EU/NATO eastern boundary
August 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
August 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
A hill and a canal in the middle of Bodrogköz
August 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A summer morning in North-Eastern Hungary
July 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Peloton > Palestinian nation

This is the fucking world we live in.
July 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
July 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
July 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
May 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
New referendum in Hungary! This time against Ukraine's European integration.
April 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I have uploaded a preprint of my recent paper, "Borderization in Georgia: A mobility perspective", in
@socarxivbot.bsky.social :

osf.io/preprints/so...

It was accepted in Mobilities and will soon be published online in the journal.
April 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
FW admits that sending U.S. soldiers to UA was the best policy to deter Russian invasion but they didn't. (Afaik, didn't even consider seriously?).

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
March 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
March 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Brotherhood of Trump Fanboys
February 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM