(GT) GEORGIA TODAY met Kornely Kakachia, Executive Director of the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP) and Renata Skarziute-Kereselidze, GIP Program Manager, to discuss international affairs. […]
Kakachia: It’s a challenging time right now not only for Georgia but for the whole world, with an unclear picture of how US foreign policy will evolve over the next four or five years. Of course, it will affect Georgia as well as the whole region. However, I think it would be very premature now to guess where it’s heading. One thing is clear: even though there may be controversies around Trump’s foreign policy objectives in general, we should not downplay the role of Congress- even if Trump’s foreign policy is not favorable for Eastern European countries and Georgia, congress can always make a balance. […]
Kakachia: I think, following a continuous tradition, Georgian elections showed that Georgian society is very polarized, pretty much as Georgian media is. We can see that the Georgian electorate wants the country to continue on its present course, but not too fast. I would say there’s a certain reform fatigue in our society, or a little bit of democracy fatigue, but that is normal; the country moved really fast with reforms in the last 10 years, and people want to take a break and analyze. […]
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