Great Power Competition And The Path To Democracy: The Case Of Georgia, 1991-2020 (Rochester Studies In East And Central Europe, 28)

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly formed transitional regimes took up the challenging task of democratization. Democracy promotion in some cases produced unintended consequences. A retrospective evaluation of the Georgian case shows that democracy emerged in Georgia partly as a result of competition between the West and Russia. This important book explores the conditions under which external pressures can lead to democracy and argues that competition between great powers incentivizes the emergence of policy compromises between local and external actors.

• | Author: Zarina Burkadze
• | Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• | Publication Date: May 13, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 202 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1648250432
• | ISBN-13: 9781648250439