Famous Georgian political scientist and diplomat Alexander Rondelli has died. He was   the President of the Georgian Foundation For Strategic and International Studies, held  a Ph.D. in Geography from Tbilisi State University (1974). From 1997 to 2001 he served as a Director of the Foreign Policy Research and Analysis Center at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Prior to that, in 1991-1996, Dr. Rondeli was a Chair of an International Relations Department. at the Tbilisi State University. Dr. Rondeli was a Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science (1976-77), a Mid-career Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (1993-94), a Visiting Professor at Emory University (1991), Mount Holyoke College (1995) and Williams College (1992, 1995 and 1997).