1st Edition

Georgia: Revolution and War

Edited By Rick Fawn Copyright 2014
182 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The post-Soviet country of Georgia has generated surprise upon surprise. Its Rose Revolution in 2003 marked the first time an existing leadership of a post-Soviet state was forced to surrender power peacefully. The new leadership of Western-educated Mikheil Saakashvili initiated wide-ranging domestic reforms, including a large-scale, unprecedented anti-corruption drive. It also intensified... Read more

1. Georgia: revolution and war 2. Reflections on the Rose Revolution 3. Explaining Georgia’s anti-corruption drive 4. Georgia’s war on crime: creating security in a post-revolutionary context 5. The difficulties of knowing the start of war in the information age: Russia, Georgia and the War over South Ossetia, August 2008 6. The Russian case for military intervention in Georgia: international law, norms and political calculation 7. Civil society and conflict transformation in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: accomplishments and challenges 8. The Russo-Georgian war and beyond: towards a European great power concert 9. A view from Tbilisi 10. Some thoughts on Ronald Asmus’ ‘Little War that Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West’ (Palgrave, 2010)

Biography

Rick Fawn teaches in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom.