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Statue of the early Georgian king, Vakhtang I, in Tbilisi (Photo: Rita Willaert)

Georgia on EU's mind? Brussels' reinvention as crisis manager

Over the last two years the EU has experienced series of setbacks in its eastern neighbourhood.

It failed to negotiate a power transition arrangement in Belarus, as a result of Russia's military buildup the precarious situation in eastern Ukraine almost slipped out of Ukraine, and a full-scale military conflict over Nagorny-Karabagh started, evolved and finished without any involvement of the EU or its member states.

All this adds up to increasing assertiveness of illiberal act...

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Author Bio

Kornely Kakachia is director of the Georgian Institute of Politics and professor of political science at Ivane javakishvili Tbilisi State University.Bidzina Lebanidze is a senior analyst at the Georgian Institute of Politics and a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Jena.

Statue of the early Georgian king, Vakhtang I, in Tbilisi (Photo: Rita Willaert)

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Author Bio

Kornely Kakachia is director of the Georgian Institute of Politics and professor of political science at Ivane javakishvili Tbilisi State University.Bidzina Lebanidze is a senior analyst at the Georgian Institute of Politics and a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Jena.

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