Monday, April 20, 2026

What Constitutions are not about and what foreign policy is about

tedo_japaridze
Tedo Japaridze is chairman of parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

Polemical reflections on the UNM’s proposal for the constitutionalization of Georgian Foreign Policy

Constitutions are binding principles that are non-negotiable in the context of a polity. This is why principles enshrined in a Constitution set minimum benchmarks,

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The End of Neoliberal Hegemony

Bakar Berekashvili
Bakar Berekashvili is a lecturer at Georgian-American University in Tbilisi.

The new ruling political class needs to make more effort to emancipate their minds from market oriented stereotypes, writes Bakar Berekashvili.

20 years of post-communist transition cultivated and produced lots of troubles, dramas and traumas in many post-communist

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Saakashvili and Friends

beka natsvlishvili
Beka Natsvlishvili is Research Associate at the Centre For Social Studies.

Certain powers in Europe declare unconditional support for Mikheil Saakashvili and his National Movement whom the Georgian people replaced peacefully, through tremendous efforts and social consolidation. This article offers the reader a description of reasons behind

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Local government after the parliamentary elections

Nino Lomjaria, executive director of International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED).

The victory of the opposition in the October 1, 2012 parliamentary election created an unusual political situation for Georgia: the majority in parliament and the local governments are controlled by two different political forces, the ruling and the opposition party.

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The fate of truth in our days

Renowned Georgian theater director Robert Sturua is one of the signatories of this open letter. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

The example of one small country

The reason behind this letter lies in critical comments made by western political circles and media concerning the government, which was elected by the majority of the citizens of Georgia in the October 2012 parliamentary election,

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Misunderstanding that Georgia will not Facilitate a Solution

George Khutsishvili is director of the International Center on Conflict and Negotiation.
If our strategic allies’ warning is about reversing the current legal processes, I would say it is impossible and could be even harmful. If it is about being more considerate in decision-planning and aware of the environment, I would agree and subscribe to it.

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Georgia and the Great Ideological Struggle

Mirian Popkhadze has a Master's degree in International Relations from Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mikhail Saakashvili’s conceding speech heralded historical victory for liberal democracy in a region, where intimidation, oppression and revolution had been the common place for two centuries of Russian domination. His speech indicated that for the first time in

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