Georgia as a laboratory for democracy

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 519-535

  Wertsch, James V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil society; Democracy; Economic development; Georgia; Labortory for democracy; Rose Revolution

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FISCAL REFORM; PARTY POLITICS; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645837230     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.13.4.519-536     Document Type: Article

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7. Country Report for Georgia, Economist Intelligence Unit (May 2005).
8. I am indebted to Thomas de Waal for pointing out this terminological issue.
9. Cornell, Tsereteli, and Socor, "Geostrategic Implications," 26.
10. For a summary of some of these quarrels, see Stuart Kaufman, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).
11. Cornell, Tsereteli, and Socor, "Geostrategic Implications," 26.
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13. Ibid.
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23. He has also applied it to other conflicts in the South Caucasus more generally. See the Roundtable Discussion of the Caucasus International Forum in Caucasus Context 2, no. 1 (2005).
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29. David the Builder continues to play a central role in the Georgian imagination. In a recent poll conducted by the International Republican Institute, he was the top choice among Georgians as "a hero in our time." Saakashvili received only 2 percent of the votes. The Messenger, no. 119 (June 3, 2005).
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