The mechanics of political leadership and the ways in which it manifests and reproduces itself---from the establishment of constituency allegiance to the production of entire landscapes of authority---have become prominent foci of study among social scientists in recent decades.…
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Le constat d'une corrélation entre d'une part les guerres sécessionnistes ayant eu cours au Caucase du Sud durant les années 1990 et, d'autre part, le statut politique que les groupes ethniques impliqués dans ces conflits détenaient à l'époque soviétique constitue le point de dé…
How did political order emerge in Tajikistan and Georgia after the violent chaos of the Soviet collapse? Despite enormous structural weaknesses--the absence of a national army, impassable mountains, ethnic cleavages, poverty, and foreign-backed insurgencies--stable regimes conso…
From the late nineteenth century to the post-communist period, Albanian and Georgian political and intellectual elites have attributed hopes to "Europe," yet have also exhibited ambivalent attitudes that do not appear likely to vanish any time soon. Albanians and Georgians have …
From the late 19th century to the post-communist period, Albanian and Georgian political and intellectual elites have attributed hopes to 'Europe, ' yet have also exhibited ambivalent attitudes that do not appear likely to vanish any time soon. A systematic account of how Albani…
From the late nineteenth century to the post-communist period, Albanian and Georgian political and intellectual elites have attributed hopes to "Europe," yet have also exhibited ambivalent attitudes that do not appear likely to vanish any time soon. Albanians and Georgians have …
Georgia and the democracy promotion project -- Illusions of democracy -- The blossoming of the revolution -- How democratic was the Rose Revolution? -- Governance by adrenaline -- The U.S. role in the Rose Revolution -- Georgia and the United States after the revolution -- Georg…
Lincoln Mitchell tracks the course of events leading up to the recent revolution in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, analyzes the contributing factors, and explores the role of the United States both in contributing to the revolution and in Georgia's failure to live up to …
"The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century changed how experts in post-Soviet nations--and globally--would treat the disease. As Free Market …