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. It is set within a comparative framework that includes other transition countries, particularly those in the former Soviet Union. The book provides two important theoretical innovations: the notion of a regime, which is an under-theorized concept in the field of transition literature, and O'Donnell, Schmitter and Karl's notion of a dynamic actor-driven transition. The volume turns to the structural constraints that framed the transition in Georgia and in other republics of the former Soviet Union by looking at the state and society in the USSR at the close of the Soviet period. It examines the evolution and nature of the Georgian regime, and ultimately addresses the theoretical and empirical problems posed by Georgia's so-called Rose Revolution following the falsification of parliamentary elections by the incumbent authorities.
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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.
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The euphoria that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union led many analysts to believe that a new age of democracy had dawned in the former communist bloc and even elsewhere in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parallel vote tabulation, former communist functionaries, informal centres, bureaucratic pluralism, cent barrier, most other republics, former first secretary, communist nomenklatura, opposition groupings, parliamentary faction, compromising material Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Ossetia, Rose Revolution, Soviet Union, National Movement, Supreme Soviet, Eduard Shevardnadze, New Rights, Zurab Zhvania, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ghia Nodia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Liberty Institute, Cabinet of Ministers, Georgian Times, Kvemo Kartli, National Guard, Round Table, State Chancellery, Labour Party, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Asian Abashidze, Civil Georgia, Online Magazine, Freedom House, Minister of Internal Affairs New!
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The euphoria that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union led many analysts to believe that a new age of democracy had dawned in the former communist bloc and even elsewhere in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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South Ossetia, Rose Revolution, Soviet Union, National Movement, Supreme Soviet, Eduard Shevardnadze, New Rights, Zurab Zhvania, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ghia Nodia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Liberty Institute, Cabinet of Ministers, Georgian Times, Kvemo Kartli, National Guard, Round Table, State Chancellery, Labour Party, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Asian Abashidze, Civil Georgia, Online Magazine, Freedom House, Minister of Internal Affairs New!
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