Georgia's European Ways
Author: Zurab Kʻarumiże
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9789941064425
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Supporting Georgia's European Way
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Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 8
ISBN-13: 9789286132896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the signature of the Framework Agreement in 2007, Georgia and the EU bank started long and fruitful cooperation that will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year. A clear vision of developing the country towards closer integration with the European Union has been at the heart of the joint efforts. Mandated by the European Union, the EIB is funding infrastructure projects, the development of the local private sector and climate action investments. In these past years, 19 operations in a wide range of sectors of the economy have been supported at a steadily growing pace. In particular, following the signature of the Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area between Georgia and the European Union, the EIB stepped up its support and, at the advent of the 10th anniversary of starting its activities in Georgia, effectively doubled its lending portfolio in the country.
The Experiment
Author: Eric Lee
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1786990954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the country’s experiment in democratic socialism, detailing the epic, turbulent events of this forgotten chapter in revolutionary history. Along the way, we are introduced to a remarkable cast of characters – among them the men and women who strove for a more inclusive vision of socialism that featured multi-party elections, freedom of speech and assembly, a free press and a civil society grounded in trade unions and cooperatives. Though the Georgian Democratic Republic lasted for just three years before it was brutally crushed on the orders of Stalin, it was able to offer, however briefly, a glimpse of a more humane alternative to the Soviet reality that was to come.
Georgia's Bumpy Transition
Author: Jana Kobzová
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13: 9781906538750
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Georgia's post-election transition from the Saakashvili era is proving bumpier than many hoped, with Bidzina Ivanishvili's new coalition government under pressure from enormous public expectations, but without a clear strategy for Georgia's future. A strong helping hand from the EU could make the difference between Georgia growing closer to Europe or turning away. Georgia is still on the long transition from being a nearly-failed state only a decade ago to the well-functioning democracy it hopes to become. Up to now, the EU's Georgia policy has been on autopilot. Now it needs to step up its involvement in the country. This means building trust with the new government and aligning its assistance closely with Georgia's needs - whilst maintaining an impartial assessment of the political developments on the ground. In "Georgia's bumpy transition: how the EU can help" Jana Kobzova argues that Europe should: Send experts to match the financial assistance that it already gives, for instance in areas like regional development and agriculture. Georgia needs such expertise to underpin sustainable growth across its economy -- Be critical of the government when necessary, based on a non-partisan appraisal of the developments on the ground. The treatment of government's political opponents should remain in a spotlight. Europe also needs to communicate better with Georgia's people and its politicians, outlining opportunities from closer integration -- Support the economy, especially shorter term growth orientated initiatives. A failure to improving living standards may lead to the government undermining Georgia's fragile democratic institutions in search of popularity. "Georgia's main political forces face a choice: either they learn to coexist and adopt a democratic political culture or they continue their zero-sum approach to politics. The former would bring Georgia closer to Europe; the latter risks alienating not only the country's society but also its Western allies." Jana Kobzova"--Publisher's description.
Georgia
Author: Stephen F. Jones
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1487507852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis multidisciplinary collection provides a unique insiders' perspective on the major issues in Georgian politics, society, and economics in the twenty-five years since its independence from the Soviet Union.
European Georgia
Author: Zaza Anchabadze
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9789941063220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTasting Georgia
Author: Carla Capalbo
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781623718428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The best book ever written in English about Georgian food and wine" —Saveur Winner Guild of Food Writers Food and Travel Award 2018 Winner Best Food Book of 2017 Gourmand Cookbook Awards Shortlisted for the Art of Eating Book Award Shortlisted for the IACP Culinary Travel Book Award The Atlantic 9 Best Cookbooks of 2017 NPR Best Cookbooks 2017 Nestled between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, and with a climate similar to the Mediterranean's, Georgia has colorful, delicious food. Vegetables blended with walnuts and vibrant herbs, subtly spiced meat stews and home-baked pies like the irresistible cheese-filled khachapuri are served at generous tables all over the country. Georgia is also one of the world's oldest winemaking areas, with wines traditionally made in qvevri: large clay jars buried in the ground. Award-winning food writer and photographer Capalbo has traveled around Georgia collecting recipes and gathering stories from food and winemakers in this stunning but little-known country. The beautifully illustrated book is both a cookbook and a cultural guide to the personal, artisan-made foods and wines that make Georgia such a special place on the world's gastronomic map.
Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton
Author: Martha L. Keber
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780820323602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis detailed biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739-1825) was the son of an impoverished Bréton aristocrat. Breaking social convention to engage in trade, he began his long career first as a cabin boy in the navy of the French India Company and later as a sea captain and privateer. After retiring from the sea, DuBignon lived in France as a "bourgeois noble" with income from land, moneylending, and manufacturing. Uprooted by the French Revolution, DuBignon fled to Georgia late in 1790, settling among other refugees from France and the Caribbean. A community long overlooked by historians of the American South, this circle of planters, nobles, and bourgeois was bound together by language, a shared faith, and the émigré experience. On his Jekyll Island slave plantation, DuBignon learned to cultivate cotton. However, he underwrote his new life through investments on both sides of the Atlantic, extending his business ties to Charleston, Liverpool, and Nantes. None of his ventures, Martha L. Keber notes, compelled DuBignon to dwell long on the inconsistencies between his entrepreneurial drive and his noble heritage. His worldview always remained aristocratic, patriarchal, and conservative. DuBignon's passage of eighty-six years took him from a tradition-bound Europe to the entrepôts of the Indian Ocean to the plantation culture of a Georgia barrier island. Wherever he went, commerce was the constant. Based on Keber's exhaustive research in European, African, and American archives, Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton portrays a resilient nobleman so well schooled in the principles of the marketplace that he prospered in the Old World and the New.
Edge of Empires
Author: Donald Rayfield
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1780230702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, but no comprehensive, up-to-date account has been written about this little-known country—until now. Remedying this omission, Donald Rayfield accesses a mass of new material from recently opened archives to tell Georgia’s absorbing story. Beginning with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ending with the volatile presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Rayfield deals with the country’s internal politics and swings between disintegration and unity, and divulges Georgia’s complex struggles with the empires that have tried to control, fragment, or even destroy it. He describes the country’s conflicts with Xenophon’s Greeks, Arabs, invading Turks, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, the Persian Empire, the Russian Empire, and Soviet totalitarianism. A wide-ranging examination of this small but colorful country, its dramatic state-building, and its tragic political mistakes, Edge of Empires draws our eyes to this often overlooked nation.
Globalization and Nationalism
Author: Natalie Sabanadze
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9789639776531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are forces of clashing opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these tend to become allied forces. Acknowledges that nationalism does react against the rising globalization and represents a form of resistance against globalizing influences, but the Basque and Georgian cases prove that globalization and nationalism can be complementary rather than contradictory tendencies. Nationalists have often served as promoters of globalization, seeking out globalizing influences and engaging with global actors out of their very nationalist interests. In the case of both Georgia and the Basque Country, there is little evidence suggesting the existence of strong, politically organized nationalist opposition to globalization. Discusses why, on a broader scale, different forms of nationalism develop differing attitudes towards globalization and engage in different relationships.Conventional wisdom suggests that sub-state nationalism in the post-Cold War era is a product of globalization. Sabanadze?s work encourages a rethinking of this proposition. Through careful analysis of the Georgian and Basque cases, she shows that the principal dynamics have little, if anything, to do with globalization and much to do with the political context and historical framework of these cases. This book is a useful corrective to facile thinking about the relationship between the ?global? and the ?local? in the explanation of civil conflict. Neil MacFarlane, Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations and fellow at St. Anne?s College, Oxford University and chair of the Oxford Politics and International Relations Department.
