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Territory versus Reform Success: Why Reformers Are Better Positioned in Georgia than in Armenia

(PONARS Policy Memo) In both Armenia and Georgia, while neither state has achieved democratic consolidation, the role of public debate is especially salient and there is real public power in politics.…

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Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus: Meeting Points in Adjara and Tatarstan

(Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs) (Co-authored with Alexandra Yatsyk) This article discusses how the discursively and culturally constructed “Russian world” intersects and communicates with the “Turkic world” as an adjacent—and in…

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“Comprehensive approximation” with the EU: biopolitical governmentality and its spill-over effects in Georgia

(Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe) This article examines Georgia’s experience of civil society engagement with reforms after 2008, which attests to the country’s Euro-integrationist aspirations. In particular, the…

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Kakachia: The Georgian election can be considered valid and quite competitive despite the confrontational environment

(civil.ge) On October 28, Georgians went to polls to elect their fifth president. Runoff between the two top contenders – the ruling party-backed Salome Zurabishvili and the opposition candidate Grigol Vashadze…

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Kakachia: Everybody knows that demonizing Russia is something that Georgians will react to

(BBC) It takes guts to eat raw chilli. But in Georgia it has become a matter of political conviction. Opponents of one of the top presidential candidates, Salome Zurabishvili, have signed…

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U.S. Disengagement from the South Caucasus: The Throne Is Never Vacant

(PONARS Policy Memo) Over the last ten years, the United States has been gradually disengaging from the South Caucasus. This has tremendously affected the countries of the region, especially Georgia and…

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Kakachia: Georgia remains a steadfast supporter of U.S. initiatives but is unlikely to want to get drawn into a US-Iran conflict

(Eurasianet) A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting the Caucasus, where he is expected to try to enlist the region’s three governments in Washington’s campaign of isolating Iran.…

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Tenth Anniversary of the War That Wounded Georgia and Derailed Russia

(EDM) In the first week of August 2008, escalating tensions between Georgia and Russia exploded in a messy battle for Tskhinvali, South Ossetia. The resulting “Five Day War” culminated in the…

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A Tale of Two Orthodoxies: Europe in Religious Discourses of Russia and Georgia

(Ethnopolitics) (Co-authored with Shota Kakabadze) The article seeks to analyze discourses of two Orthodox Churches—Georgian (GOC) and Russian (ROC)—from the vantage point of their various interconnections with Europe and the ensuing representations of…

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Georgia: A Borderland beyond Geopolitics

(Slavica Publishers) Introduction: This collection of articles is a result of an international networked project that during three years supported professional mobility and connectivity between the University of Tartu and…

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Territory versus Reform Success: Why Reformers Are Better Positioned in Georgia than in Armenia

Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus: Meeting Points in Adjara and Tatarstan

“Comprehensive approximation” with the EU: biopolitical governmentality and its spill-over effects in Georgia

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Kakachia: Georgia remains a steadfast supporter of U.S. initiatives but is unlikely to want to get drawn into a US-Iran conflict

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A Tale of Two Orthodoxies: Europe in Religious Discourses of Russia and Georgia

Georgia: A Borderland beyond Geopolitics