1st Edition
War and Revolution in the Caucasus Georgia Ablaze
Preface: Georgia on Everybody’s Mind: The Aftermath of War Professor Ronald Suny, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Introduction: Georgia's Domestic Front Professor Stephen Jones, Mount Holyoke College, Mass., USA
The Colonial Context
‘David and Goliath’ and ‘Georgians in the Kremlin’: A post-colonial perspective on conflict in post-Soviet Georgia Dr Laurence Broers, Conciliation Resources, UK
Managing Ethnic Diversity in Georgia: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Dr Jonathan Wheatley, Centre for Democracy, Aarau, Switzerland
The Revolutionary State
The Dangers of Reform: State Building and National Minorities in Georgia Assoc. Professor Julie George, Queen’s College, CUNY, USA
The August 2008 War in Georgia: From Ethnic Conflict to Border Wars Dr Vicken Cheterian, Director of Programs, Cimera, Switzerland
A Polarized Democracy
Compromising Democracy-State Building in Saakashvili’s Georgia Professor Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University, New York, USA
Saakashvili in the Public Eye Dr Nana Sumbadze, Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia
The Post-Revolutionary Economy
Georgia’s Economy: Post-revolutionary Development and Post-war Difficulties Dr Lado Papava, Senior Fellow, Georgian Foundation for Security and International Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia
Corruption and Organized Crime in Georgia before and after the ‘Rose Revolution’ Professor Alexandre Kukhianidze, Department of Political Scienc,e Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
An Alternative Perspective
The View from Abkhazia of South Ossetia Ablaze Dr Paula Garb, University of California, Irvine, USA
Biography
Stephen Jones is a Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, USA. He has studied Georgian politics and society for 30 years and has written over 80 articles and chapters on Georgia and the South Caucasus. His recent book Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917, was published by Harvard University Press in 2005. He is currently working on a book, Georgia: A Political Life, 1991-2007, to be published by I.B.Tauris, London.
