07 Feb 2008

Georgia’s Hollow Revolution Does Georgia’s Pro-Western and Anti-Russian Policy Amount to Democracy? by Vladimer Papava. The Harvard International Review. February 06, 2008

10 Jan 2008

Georgia’s Post-Revolutionary Period Ends, Posing Challenges and Opportunities By Temuri Yakobashvili and Johanna Popjanevski (01/09/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst). The January 5 presidential elections vindicated Georgia’s democratic credentials. It brought Mikheil Saakashvili a second term in power, but one which will be distinctively different from his first. With Georgia’s post-revolutionary period coming to an end, parliamentary elections this spring are certain to yield a much more diverse and contested political scene. This political scene is intensely polarized and subjected to both external and asymmetric threats, posing substantial challenges for the consolidation of Georgian democracy and stability.

17 Dec 2007

How to Avoid Political Persecution in the Post-Election Period? T. Yakobashvili. Interview with the daily newspaper “Mteli Kvira,” 17 December 2007 #341 (5499). In Georgian. It is not the whole country but only a political group that can find itself in isolation. It was a crisis within the governmental system that created the recent events in Georgia and it is necessary to pay very close attention to those issues which emerged as a result of that crisis. Our government is not skilled enough to effectively engage in crisis management.

14 Dec 2007

Russia Involves Itself in Everything that Happens in Georgia but the Events of November Were Not Planned by Moscow T. Yakobashvili's interview with the e-newspaper “www.pankisi.info,” 13 December 2007 . In Russian. It seems to me that Russia not so much blackmails Georgia as tries to avoid Kosovo precedent due to its internal problems. While by talking about the recognition of Abkhaz independence Russia blackmails friends of Georgia rather than Georgia per se.

02 Nov 2007

Russia's Policy Towards Georgia is Simple - Intimidation, Blackmail, and Pressure A. Rondeli's interview to the newspaper Georgia Today. November 2 - 8. 2007. N 381. Georgia is in the process of slowly acquiring and accumulating the strategic culture. The Georgian elite, its foreign policy community continues to learn the rules of the game and the reality of harsh international system.

26 Oct 2007

Anti-Revolutionary Measures of the Post-Soviet Regimes The GFSIS is pleased to e-publish a paper by Mikheil Kechaqmadze, an external scholar at the Foundation, entitled “Anti-Revolutionary Measures of the Post-Soviet Regimes.” Mr Kechaqmadze, who holds a B.A. in English and a M.A. in Political Science, researches and writes extensively on the process of democratisation in the post-Soviet region. From the introduction: In 2000-05, four post-Soviet leaders—Milosevic (Serbia, 2000), Shevardnadze (Georgia, 2003), Kuchma (Ukraine, 2004) and Akaev (Kyrgyzstan, 2005)—found themselves stripped of power as a result of a new political phenomenon, the electoral revolution. Surprisingly, in the mostly anarchical political world based upon sheer power and force, non-violent protests successfully overpowered the formidable tools available at the (semi)-authoritarian regimes’ disposal. In the enigma of the modern world, the roses have replaced guns and street demonstrations have replaced street fighting.

19 Oct 2007

Can Georgia Join NATO Without Solving the Conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia Temuri Yakobashvili, Executive Vice-President, and Jonathan Kulick, Director of Studies, have contributed a paper to the German Marshall Fund’s new publication series on the wider Black Sea region. The series appears in advance of next week’s launch in Bucharest of the GMF’s Black Sea Trust for Regional Co-operation. Other contributors include Ronald D. Asmus, Fyodor Lukyanov, Jörg Himmelreich, Fariz Ismailzade, Ivan Krastev, F. Stephen Larrabee and Ilgar Mammadov on the regional challenges and opportunities faced by the West and others.

24 Mar 2007

Pundit Says EU Envoy's Plan For Conflicts Kakha Gogolashvili’s interview to daily newspaper Resonansi. 24 March, 2007. Translated by BBC Monitoring. The EU is planning to become actively involved in the resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian and the Georgian-Ossetian conflicts and to step up its role in this process. Peter Semneby, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, has prepared a 15-step plan regarding the aforementioned question and he will present it for the organization's consideration 27 March. Semneby has already presented this plan to diplomats from the EU member states.

03 Jan 2007

Institutions and Politics of the European Union “European Integration” Series. Published by GFSIS with the support from European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency; Erasmus, Jean Monnet, Study Centres Unit, Jean Monnet

23 Dec 2006

Strategist: Georgia on Path of Innovation T. Yakobashvili's interview to the Turkish idependend English language newspaper "The New Anatolian"

20 Dec 2006

Georgia – Russia: About the Reason of Conflict Alexander Rondeli’s article in the «Монд дипломатик», November, 2006. In Russian

15 Dec 2006

Georgia's Path to NATO Temuri Yakobashvili. Next Steps in Forging a Euroatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea. The German Marshall Fund of the United States. 2006. Pages 185-196.

04 Dec 2006

Introduction of the Post of the EU Foreign Affairs Minister & Possible Consequences for the EU Foreign Policy David Chochua. M.A., Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. M.A., University of Lund Vienna, Austria, 2006

02 Oct 2006

Comparative Advantages Of The Central Caucasian Countries: Potential, Realized, And Missed Opportunities V. Papava's publication in: The Caucasus & Globalization, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2006.

20 Apr 2006

The Threat of the Thief: Who Has Normative Influence in Georgian Society? Mr. Gavin Slade. Intern at GFSIS

04 Apr 2006

Georgia on My Mind Economic realism in a new book by Prof. Vladimer Papava on post-Soviet economic transformation. By Anders Åslund