Contact:
Tel. +46-8-410-56960
e-mail: ldipuppo/at/ silkroadstudies.org

Expertise:
- Georgia and South Caucasus

- EU relations with Eastern Neighborhood

- Anti-corruption policies and strategies

Lili Di Puppo is completing a PhD at the European Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. She graduated from the Otto-Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin in 2004 with a M.A. (Diploma) in Political Science. She was a lecturer in Political Science at the Tbilisi Ilia Chavchavadze University in Georgia from 2006 to 2008. She is editor of the Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) and Caucaz.com.

Her main research interests are in the fields of corruption and anti-corruption research, transformation in post-communist countries, anthropology of development, the EU’s foreign and security policy and democracy promotion. She has published articles on the EU’s policy in the South Caucasus region and Georgian politics in Eurasianet, Transitions Online and Caucaz.com.

Selected Publications

Lili Di Puppo, "The externalization of JHA policies in Georgia: partner or hotbed of threats?" Journal of European Integration, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2009, S. 103-118.

Lili Di Puppo, "International and national approaches to the fight against corruption in Georgia. Different methods, different objectives?", in Sabine Fischer, Heiko Pleines (eds.), Crises and conflicts in post-socialist societies - The role of ethnic, political and social identities, Changing Europe book series vol. 4, Stuttgart 2008.

Lili Di Puppo, "Good governance or security? EU anti-corruption policy in the southern Caucasus" in Osteuropa: Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens, 2-3, 2007
The EU anti-corruption policy in the South Caucasus, Insight Turkey, Vol 7, No. 4, October-December 2005.