RESEARCH

November 2023, Isabelle, together with Restart Initiative, organized a talk at the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics, titled “Armenia, Azerbaijan and Karabakh: What comes Next?” The talk brought together International relations professor Dr Arman Grigoryan and Ahmad Alili, Director of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre to discuss Armenian and Azerbaijani perspectives on the Karabakh conflict and peace process. The event has been one of the most watched events on the Centre’s Youtube channel.

You can see it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr0PPqk1yS0&ab_channel=CentreforGeopolitics

In 2023-2024, in a research project led by Migrant Democracy Project, we were awarded £50k in funding from the Greater London Authority and Impact for Urban Health to conduct the largest ever London-wide research into representativeness in local politics. The project was supported with an additional  £28k from the LSE School of Public Policy. Isabelle leads the qualitative research and research team management. She hired, trained and is managing a team of 13 LSE research assistants. The London Councillors survey achieved an unprecedented 30% response rate and the final project will be launched in September 2024.

Isabelle published an expert analysis on the Caucasus in April 2024 for the Centre for Geopolitics. She explained what has been going on in Georgia around the foreign influence law, and analyzed the positioning of Armenia and Azerbaijan vis-a-vis Russia and the European Union.

You can read the whole article here: https://www.cfg.polis.cam.ac.uk/news/an-update-on-the-neighbourhood-april-in-the-caucasus/