Was the South Ossetian war of August 2008 inevitable? Although conditions between the
Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian political leadership had hardened into seemingly …

Abstract Georgia's Rose Revolution promised swee** economic and political reforms,
designed in part to enhance the livelihoods of ethnic and religious minority populations. The …

Many ethnic minorities demand (adequate) descriptive representation in parliament
because they expect it to affect the responsiveness of governments towards their demands …

'This paper aims to explore the extent to which national minorities in the Georgian provinces
of Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti are integrated into the economic and political life of …

Ahıska Türkleri Sorunu” başlıklı çalışmanın yazılmasında, bilimsel ve etik kurallara
uyulduğunu, başvurulan kaynaklardan yapılan alıntıların adlarının bilimsel kurallara uygun …

Destabilized multiethnic states and empires are environments that are highly susceptible to
violent ethnonationalist conflict. Conflicts between states built on the ruins of such empires …

After the Rose Revolution, President Saakashvili tried to move away from the exclusionary
nationalism of the past, which had poisoned relations between Georgians and their …

During and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, several violent conflicts erupted in different
parts of its (former) territory. The South Caucasus region has experienced three ethnically …

In 2007, the base of the Russian army's 62nd Division at Akhalkalaki, Georgia was shut
down. After outlining the historical role of the base in Russian–Armenian–Turkish relations …

While sharing a common ethnic heritage and national legacy, and an ambiguous status in
relation to the Georgian state and ethnic majority, the Armenians in Georgia comprise not …