Georgia: From Autocracy to Democracy

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Terminology
List of Contributors

Foreword by Giorgi Khelashvili
Preface by David Usupashvili
Introduction by Stephen F. Jones

Part I. Historical and Geographical Context
Key Themes

1. Persistent Patterns in Georgian Politics, Stephen F. Jones
2. New Shifts in Georgian Geography, Joseph Salukvadze and Zurab Davitashvili
3. Economic and Regional Factors in Georgia’s Political Transformation, Mikheil Tokmazishvili

Part II. Georgia’s Institutional Transformations
Key Themes

4. Higher Education and State-Building in Georgia, Marine Chitashvili
5. Taming the Courts: Judicial Reform in Georgia (1991–2017), Vakhtang Menabde
6. Elections, Political Parties, and Social Change in Georgia (2003–2016), David Sichinava

Part III. Georgia and the International System
Key Themes

7. Georgia’s European Dilemma, Natalie Sabanadze
8. Russian Policy towards Georgia, Neil MacFarlane
9. Georgia in the International Political Economy, Mamuka Tsereteli
10. Afterword, Neil MacFarlane

Endnotes
Index