While causing a lot of pain in the short run, last week’s protests in Tbilisi may trigger very significant changes in Georgia’s political and economic long run landscape, rendering Georgia more competitive and resilient to...
While we don’t trust each other and people who are supposed to represent us (political parties and NGOs are the least trusted Georgian institutions), we do seem to believe in strong authority embodied in Georgia’s...
Thomas de Waal is a household name when it comes to conflicts and politics of the Caucasus. Hosted by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung South Caucasus, Tom’s public lecture attracted a large crowd of young Georgians. Most attendees...
To be able to join the West’s military and political structures, Georgia has to upgrade itself in line with its Euro-Atlantic aspirations: educate its population, develop the economy, and, last but not least, address deficiencies...
Four years after rising to power in 1977, Israel’s Likud party was about to be dealt a major blow in the parliamentary election scheduled for June 30, 1981.
Likud’s leader and PM, Menachem Begin, was a...
CHAPTER I: “BIRZHA” POLITICS
The results of the first round of Georgia’s 2018 presidential elections are being discussed everywhere. Street corner gatherings, the ‘birzhas’, are seething with excitement. While quite emotional at times, the sophistication level...