Georgia: Revolution and War - Revolution and War

This international collection provides a diverse yet coherent range of new scholarship and opinion on this fascinating and often perplexing post-Soviet country. Revolution, war, great power politics, civil society and peacemaking, as well as crime and corruption, all receive intensive and fresh evaluation from leading analysts.
This book is absed on a special issue of European Security.

List of contents

1. Georgia: revolution and war 2. Reflections on the Rose Revolution 3. Explaining Georgia’s anti-corruption drive 4. Georgia’s war on crime: creating security in a post-revolutionary context 5. The difficulties of knowing the start of war in the information age: Russia, Georgia and the War over South Ossetia, August 2008 6. The Russian case for military intervention in Georgia: international law, norms and political calculation 7. Civil society and conflict transformation in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: accomplishments and challenges 8. The Russo-Georgian war and beyond: towards a European great power concert 9. A view from Tbilisi 10. Some thoughts on Ronald Asmus’ ‘Little War that Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West’ (Palgrave, 2010)

About the author

Rick Fawn teaches in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom.

Product details

• Authors: Rick (University of St Andrews Fawn
• Assisted by: Rick Fawn (Editor), Fawn Rick (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2013
• EAN: 9780415842532
• ISBN: 978-0-415-84253-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, military history, Politics & government, Political leaders & leadership, Political structures: democracy, Revolutionary groups & movements, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Regional Geography, Political leaders and leadership, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions