Franziska Smolnik is a political sociologist currently working as a senior researcher at Eastern Europe and Eurasia Division of the German Institute of International and Security Affairs in Berlin, Germany. Andrea Weiss is a social anthropologist and freelance researcher who specialises in the Caucasus and its neighbourhood.

• 1. Transboundary processes and (re-)configurations of political space in the Caucasus 2. Local government reforms in Georgia and their impact on state-society relations 3. Governing the local in the North Caucasus 4. Shia groups and Iranian religious influence in Azerbaijan: the impact of trans-boundary religious ties on national religious policy 5. Political space and borderland practices in Abkhazia and Adjara: exploring the role of Ottoman legacies and contemporary Turkish influences 6. Internationalization of science and regional political studies (the case of the Caucasus)

Franziska Smolnik is a political sociologist currently working as a senior researcher at Eastern Europe and Eurasia Division of the German Institute of International and Security Affairs in Berlin, Germany. Andrea Weiss is a social anthropologist and freelance researcher who specialises in the Caucasus and its neighbourhood.

• 1. Transboundary processes and (re-)configurations of political space in the Caucasus 2. Local government reforms in Georgia and their impact on state-society relations 3. Governing the local in the North Caucasus 4. Shia groups and Iranian religious influence in Azerbaijan: the impact of trans-boundary religious ties on national religious policy 5. Political space and borderland practices in Abkhazia and Adjara: exploring the role of Ottoman legacies and contemporary Turkish influences 6. Internationalization of science and regional political studies (the case of the Caucasus)

Franziska Smolnik is a political sociologist currently working as a senior researcher at Eastern Europe and Eurasia Division of the German Institute of International and Security Affairs in Berlin, Germany. Andrea Weiss is a social anthropologist and freelance researcher who specialises in the Caucasus and its neighbourhood.

• 1. Transboundary processes and (re-)configurations of political space in the Caucasus 2. Local government reforms in Georgia and their impact on state-society relations 3. Governing the local in the North Caucasus 4. Shia groups and Iranian religious influence in Azerbaijan: the impact of trans-boundary religious ties on national religious policy 5. Political space and borderland practices in Abkhazia and Adjara: exploring the role of Ottoman legacies and contemporary Turkish influences 6. Internationalization of science and regional political studies (the case of the Caucasus)