Jonathan Wheatley

Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution

Delayed Transition in the Former Soviet Union

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Produktbeschreibung

Setting the text within a comparative framework, Jonathan Wheatley examines the tortuous process of regime change in Georgia from the first pro-independence protests of 1988 to the aftermath of the so-called Rose Revolution in 2004.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780754645030
• ISBN-10: 0754645037
• Artikelnr.: 22060703

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Wheatley is Research Fellow at the Osteuropa Institute of the Free University Berlin, Germany. He is part of a project called 'Accounting for State-Building, Stability and Violent Conflict: The Institutional Framework of Caucasian and Central Asian Transitional Societies'. The project explores the conditions for successful/failed defusing of conflict potential in Caucasian and Central Asian societies within the context of successful/failed state building.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Map of Georgia's Provinces
Actors and structures: the anatomy and evolution of regimes
The Soviet legacy: implications for regime change
Nationalist mobilization in Georgia 1989-1991
Shevardnadze's return and its aftermath 1992-1995
Profile of a corrupt regime: the Georgian State 1996-2001
Pressure from below: the influence of society on the Georgian State 1996-2001
The 'Rose Revolution': a second transition?
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.