... of California Julie George Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili Bidzina Ivanishvili democratization democracy Samuel Huntington Eduard Shevardnaze Rose Revolution elections political competition 277 [T]he essential story of Georgian politics is a gradual, long-term trend: the slow growth...

... China Mikheil Saakashvili NATO Barack Obama Collective Security Treaty Organization 266 For the first time in its history . . . Russia finds itself surrounded by states and political groupings that are economically, demographically, and politically more dynamic than itself. Russia, the 360...

... opposition can defeat a weak semi-democratic kleptocracy. © 2004 Current History. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze Russia Mikhail Saakashvili Zurab Zhvania Nino Burjanadze Ajara Aslan Abashidze Rustavi National Movement...