Bolton's Caucasian Tour and Russia's Reaction
By Eduard Abrahamyan December 17, 2018, the CACI Analyst On October 24-26, a U.S. State Department delegation headed by National Security Adviser Ambassador John Bolton visited the South Caucasian...
View ArticleGeorgia's Last Direct Presidential Elections
By Natalia Konarzewska January 16, 2019, the CACI Analyst On November 28, 2018, Georgians elected their next president in the second round, in the last direct presidential elections before the country...
View ArticleGeorgian Politics: Awaiting Revitalization
By Neil Hauer March 13, 2019, the CACI Analyst Georgia’s final presidential elections in October and November 2018 served as a microcosm of the current uninspired state of Georgian politics. Although...
View ArticleGeorgian Politics in Anticipation of the 2020 Parliamentary
By Casper Wuite May 28, 2019, the CACI Analyst Only six months after a closely fought presidential election, Georgia’s political forces are repositioning themselves for the 2020 parliamentary...
View ArticleAre Georgia-Azerbaijan Relations at Risk?
By Svante E. Cornell July 30, 2019, the CACI Analyst Azerbaijan and Georgia have enjoyed almost three decades of a strategic partnership that has shaped the geopolitical landscape of the whole greater...
View ArticlePolitical Turbulence in Georgia One Year Before Elections
By Natalia Konarzewska September 16, 2019, the CACI Analyst One year ahead of the 2020 parliamentary elections, Georgia is experiencing a serious political crisis that has exposed deep flaws in the...
View ArticleNew Wave of Anti-Government Protests in Georgia
By Natalia Konarzewska December 16, 2019, the CACI Analyst Before the dust from the June anti-government demonstrations had time to settle, Georgia saw a new round of protests in November. This time,...
View ArticleChina's Soft Power in the South Caucasus
By Nurlan Aliyev March 2, 2020, the CACI Analyst In December 26, 2019 , the Georgian National Museum presented a new exhibition titled “Chinese Art in the Georgian National Museum,” dedicated to the...
View ArticleGeopolitics Doomed Georgia's Anaklia Project, But Can Also Resurrect It
By Emil Avdaliani March 9, 2020, the CACI Analyst Georgia’s long-awaited Anaklia project officially ended in January 2020. The country’s internal problems as well as geopolitical competition involving...
View ArticleArmenia Seeks Re-Energized Ties with Georgia
By Natalia Konarzewska April 15, 2020, the CACI Analyst Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited Georgia on March 3-4 to discuss bilateral relations and held several high-profile meetings with...
View ArticleEmerging Room for Rapport Between Sokhumi Tbilisi
By Emil Avdaliani June 18, 2020, the CACI Analyst Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia is undergoing a deep political crisis coupled with troubles in its relationship with Russia. This potentially...
View Article"To Light the Lands": Georgia and the Quest for Electrical Security
By Jesse Young September 8, 2020, the CACI Analyst Central to Georgia’s post-independence “success story” was the rapid modernization of its electrical system. Once saddled with sclerotic and...
View ArticleGeorgian Dream Claims Third Consecutive Victory in Parliamentary Elections
By Natalia Konarzewska November 16, 2020, the CACI Analyst For the first time in the country’s history, Georgia’s ruling party has secured a third consecutive term in the parliamentary elections on...
View ArticleWhat the Biden Administration Can and Should do in the South Caucasus
By Stephen Blank February 8, 2021, the CACI Analyst The advent of the Biden Administration provides an opportunity to give the South Caucasus the importance it deserves in U.S. foreign policy. The...
View ArticlePolitical Crisis in Georgia Takes Turn for the Worst
By Natalia Konarzewska April 13, 2021, the CACI Analyst Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stepped down on February 18 following the detention of the opposition United National Movement’s (UNM)...
View ArticleIs Georgia at risk of losing its European perspective?
By Beka Chedia November 26, 2021, the CACI Analyst On August 31, Georgian authorities announced that they declined a loan of 75 million Euros from the EU, since they already had sufficient resources...
View ArticleThe prospect of six-party regional cooperation in the South Caucasus
By Fuad Shahbazov January 26, 2022, the CACI Analyst On October 6, 2021, Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian in Moscow to discuss...
View ArticleSouth Ossetian Territorial Claims Overlap With "Fear Zones" Already...
By Tomáš Baranec, Giorgi Bilanishvili, Davit Katsarava, Lana Ghvinjilia March 1, 2022, the CACI Analyst On November 19, 2021, the South Ossetian de-facto State Commission for the Border with Georgia...
View ArticleNational Interest and Regime Survival: Why Georgia is Cautious Towards the...
By David Aprasidze and Giorgi Gvalia April 22, 2022 Georgia experienced invasion by Russia in 2008 and is since partially occupied. It shares Euro-Atlantic aspirations with Ukraine. This context...
View ArticleEU dashes Georgia's hopes for candidate country status
By Natalia Konarzewska July 8, 2022 Georgia made a big leap towards membership in the European Union on March 3 when it submitted a formal application for EU candidate country status alongside Moldova...
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