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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…

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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Tenth Anniversary of the War That Wounded Georgia and Derailed Russia

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

Georgia: A Borderland beyond Geopolitics

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