Jonathan Wheatley

Jonathan Wheatley is research fellow at the Centre for Democracy Aarau (ZDF) in Switzerland. He is the author of Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution: Delayed Transition in the Former Soviet Union (Ashgate, 2005)

Georgia at a crossroads: after the post-war

In Tbilisi, memories of the bitter conflict with Russia in August 2008 are fresh, but everywhere too are signs that forces of change are pushing Georgia in new directions. Jonathan Wheatley takes the measure of a fluid political moment.

By Jonathan Wheatley

/ 22 Oct 2010

Georgia’s democratic stalemate

The so-called "rose revolution" in Georgia, when peaceful street protests against falsified parliamentary elections sparked in November 2003 eventually forced out the incumbent president, Eduard Shevardnadze, created optimism

By Jonathan Wheatley

/ 14 Apr 2008