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Published in: oDRWhat do Georgians have against trade unions?Faced with unemployment, people in Georgia are more likely to turn to support systems of family and friends than...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia’s grotesque democracyNeoliberal dogma has taken root and, ahead of parliamentary elections next year, our political elites have nothing...
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Published in: oDRIn Georgia, justice delayed is justice deniedGiorgi Ugulava, political ally of Mikheil Saakashvili and former mayor of Tbilisi, has gone behind bars. Behind the...
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Published in: oDRSouth Ossetia's creeping borderRenewed tensions along the de-facto border between Georgia and South Ossetia have raised concerns in Tbilisi—and...
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Published in: oDRKakha Bendukidze and Georgia’s failed experimentKakha Bendukidze died in November 2014 at the age of 58. Bendukidze directed the whirlwind of economic reform that...
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Published in: HomeThe failed "mental revolution": Georgia, crime and criminal justice
Crime has been near the top of Georgia's political agenda for a decade. But successive governments have still to...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia and the Ukraine crisisGeorgians see the struggle for Ukrainian sovereignty as an analogue of their own fate.
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Published in: oDRGeorgia looks west, Armenia eastThis summer, Georgia signed an Association Agreement with the EU, but its southern neighbour, Armenia, has opted for...
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Published in: oDRFrom Georgia to the EU is a long road
Georgia has signed an association agreement with the EU. But there is a long road ahead toward establishing...
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Published in: Participation NowComplaints Choir: what is it?"This project stays dynamic when people take the Complaints Choir as a tool and make use of it in their own context...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ukraine, the west, and the issue of strategic thinking
Despite many weeks and months having passed since protests erupted in Ukraine in late November 2013, the west has...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia and migration: a policy trap
Europe's politics of migration control are being exported to Georgia with potentially dangerous results, says Gavin Slade.
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Published in: oDRGeorgia through a glass, darklySince the break-up of the USSR, the South Caucasus has trodden a chequered path, both political and economic. Is...
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Published in: oDRThe polyphonic presidentMikheil Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia, was once hailed as the very archetype of a model post-Soviet leader –...
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Published in: oDRNeighbourhood watch
In 2009 six post-Soviet nations signed up to the EU Eastern Partnership, aimed at deepening political cooperation...
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Published in: oDRFive Years after the Russian-Georgian WarFive years after the Russian-Georgian war, Georgian Premier Bidzina Ivanishvili has announced that Tbilisi is ready...
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Published in: oDRIs Georgia a terrorist state?Was there a secret programme to arm and train North Caucasus militants under the previous Georgian government? A...
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Published in: HomeCivil society in post-Soviet Europe: seven rules for donors
The west's contribution to building more democratic and open societies in the post-Soviet region leaves much scope...
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Published in: openSecurityBreaking the vicious circle - reconciliation in OSCE areas
Work must be done to overcome divides even many decades after official agreements to end violence have been signed....
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Published in: HomeBidzina Ivanishvili and the new-old Georgia
The election victory of Bidzina Ivanishvili has reconfigured Georgia's political landscape, dominated by Mikheil...
