...Salome Minesashvili Georgia’s European identity, often regarded as the basis of its pro-Western foreign policy, has been contested in the domestic arena by alternative agendas. While government changes are usually deemed instigators of change in this contestation, no systematic analysis has been...

...John Ishiyama; Lia Mezvrishvili; Nina Zhgenti We examine whether the existence of civil society in Georgia has promoted social and institutional trust in the population. As much of the literature suggests, Georgia is different from its neighbors in that civil society development is more advanced...

...Lia Tsuladze This paper analyses Georgians’ popular online discourses on Europeanisation in the period between Georgia’s initialling and signing of the Association Agreement with the EU (November 2013–June 2014). It investigates the ambivalence encountered by Georgians: Despite their long-lasting...

...Thijs Rommens Through the Eastern Partnership the EU specifically attempts to strengthen democracy in Georgia. Lacking strong conditionality, the EU has to rely on a different approach to democracy assistance, such as a network governance mode. The implementation of EU policies has led...

... and foreign policy. * Corresponding author. © 2014 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California European Neighborhood Policy Russia EU Eastern Partnership Ukraine Georgia Eastern...

...Natia Mestvirishvili; Maia Mestvirishvili The main interest of the study is to determine whether and how an individual’s perceived economic situation is related to emancipative values in Georgia. The analysis employs individual-level survey data from nationwide public opinion surveys conducted...

... and encouraging seemed to be the culmination of efforts to reset and repair relations between Russia and the West that had deteriorated so badly in the wake of the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Progress here, one would think, could also only bode well for Russian East European relations, which were greatly...

.... 2012 The Regents of the University of California Abkhazia Elections Parliament Georgia Caucasus Post-Soviet 1. Introduction es of e po olitic that v zia as enw ity of task azia, economy (Popescu, 2006), minorities (Berge, 2010; Kølsto and Blakkisrud, 2011), inter-ethnic relations (Trier...

...Zdeněk Kříř; Zinaida Shevchuk The history of the cooperation between Georgia and NATO had started long before the Rose Revolution. Nowadays, Georgia belongs to the countries which want to join NATO. This article gauges the Georgian readiness for its accession to NATO. Study on NATO enlargement...

...Yasushi Suzuki; Md. Dulal Miah Georgia has been experiencing robust GDP growth since the Rose Revolution despite its formal financial system remaining critically underdeveloped. This goes against a strongly supported proposition that a country’s economic development is followed by a welldeveloped...

... by former members of the authoritarian regimes' political elite. Finally, the supposedly democratic revolutions proved to be little more than a limited rotation of ruling elites within undemocratic political systems. Revolution Post-Soviet Georgia Ukraine Kyrgyzstan Authoritarian regimes Civil...

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...Taras Kuzio Youth have played an important role in mobilizing support for democratic revolutions during elections that have facilitated regime change. In Serbia (2000), Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004) youth led the way in organizing democratic coalitions among hitherto warring opposition parties...

...Lucan A. Way; Steven Levitsky This article examines coercive capacity and its impact on autocratic regime stability in the context of post-Soviet Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, and Ukraine. In the post-Cold War era, different types of coercive acts require different types of state power. First, high...