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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…

The Do-or-Die Dilemma Facing Post-Soviet De Facto States

(PONARS Policy Memo) De facto states operate against unfavorable international legal conditions, combined with manifest security threats and widespread political disengagement from the international community. Moreover, they are affected by a…

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How the West Should Respond to Russia’s “Borderization” in Georgia

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia’s swift achievement of its political objectives in Crimea while firing hardly a shot generated much debate about the use and effectiveness of “hybrid warfare.” Although the term…

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The Bucharest Summit Revisited | Interview with Nicu Popescu

(Georgia Today) Georgia has been waiting 10 years for NATO to come good on its promise, given at the 2008 Bucharest Summit, that Georgia (and Ukraine) would one day become…

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Kakachia: It won’t help Armenia’s plans for a transit corridor without concessions from Moscow on Georgia’s breakaway regions

(Eurasianet) Armenia and Azerbaijan compete to attract Iranian cargo – Iran has been a fairly marginal player in the South Caucasus, but both Armenia and Azerbaijan are competing to draw it into the…

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Why Georgia’s Lessons for Russia Don’t Apply in Ukraine

(Carnegie Moscow Center) Those in Moscow who believe that all is not lost for Russia in Ukraine, citing the example of Georgia, which is gradually normalizing relations with Russia despite the…

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Who Cares about Conspiracy Theories? Evidence From a New Survey in Georgia and Kazakhstan

(PONARS Policy Memo) Since the Ukraine crisis, political commentators have remarked on the chasm of understanding of events in the post-Soviet region, depending on whether one is consuming news in the…

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Kakachia: When Mattis became head of the Pentagon, it became clear that Georgia was safe

(Eurasianet) The United States is stepping up its military aid to Georgia as Washington searches for new ways to encourage Georgians to continue on their pro-Western path in spite of…

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Why Russia’s War Against Ukraine May Never End

(Atlantic Council) (Co-authored with J. Larsen) Russian President Vladimir Putin recently requested a UN peacekeeping mission for eastern Ukraine. While at home this looks like a peace overture, Putin is not motivated by…

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Kakachia: Brit campaigning by bike in Tbilisi “is a very new thing for Georgian society”

(BBC) Georgians will vote in local elections on Saturday, and this year there is quite an unusual candidate. Originally from the UK, Joseph Alexander Smith has spent the last five years…

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Georgia: A Borderland beyond Geopolitics

The Do-or-Die Dilemma Facing Post-Soviet De Facto States

How the West Should Respond to Russia’s “Borderization” in Georgia

The Bucharest Summit Revisited | Interview with Nicu Popescu

Kakachia: It won’t help Armenia’s plans for a transit corridor without concessions from Moscow on Georgia’s breakaway regions

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Who Cares about Conspiracy Theories? Evidence From a New Survey in Georgia and Kazakhstan

Kakachia: When Mattis became head of the Pentagon, it became clear that Georgia was safe

Why Russia’s War Against Ukraine May Never End

Kakachia: Brit campaigning by bike in Tbilisi “is a very new thing for Georgian society”