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Georgia : Pawn in the New Political Game.
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Gordonsville :
Pluto Press, Macmillan [distributor]
2010 ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of photos
- Acronyms
- Preface
- Map of Georgia
- 1. The geopolitical setting
- a renewed Great Game
- A troubled area
- The new Silk Road
- The Western Offensive
- A regional alternative?
- Russia's Comeback
- Chechnya
- all about oil?
- New Russian strategy
- Will Obama make a difference?
- Notes
- 2. Puppet or buffer?
- Paradoxes
- National or private religion?
- Georgianization
- Javakheti
- far from Tbilisi
- A transit country
- Puppet or buffer?
- Notes
- 3. A history of failed independence
- Long before Christ.
- Georgievsk 1783
- occupation or protection?
- The first modern independence
- Soviet Georgia = occupied territory?
- Notes
- 4. The dissolution of the Soviet Union
- blessing or disaster?
- Perestroika
- Social collapse, political pluralism
- On the brink of civil war
- Western indifference to Russian suffering
- Notes
- 5. The breakaway regions
- Russian stooges or freedom
- South Ossetia
- Abolishing the autonomy
- Years of relative calm
- Attempts at reconquest
- Abkhazia
- Countdown towards war
- The fall of Sukhumi, and Georgian mass flight
- Russia
- culprit or scapegoat?
- Renewed tension
- Peace efforts
- Waiting for a Georgian de Gaulle
- Notes
- 6. Gamsakhurdia, the tactical fanatic
- April 9, 1989
- Good liberator, poor administrator
- Dark legacy
- Notes
- 7. Shevardnadze. the failed saviour
- Contradicting moods
- Shevardnadze's comeback
- Shevardnadze's first 'realistic' phase
- 2000: cracks in the wall
- Shevardnadze turns to the West
- Escalation
- Preparing for Shevardnadze's exit
- Back to Russia?
- Notes
- 8. Kmara
- enough! The Rose Revolution
- Did the opposition win?
- Fear of Abashidze
- Peaceful takeover.
- The November crisis, 2007
- The presidential election of 2008
- The parliamentary election of 2008
- Good for business, not for the poor
- Notes
- 12. The Ossetia War 2008
- a conspiracy, but by whom?
- The final escalation
- 'Operation Clear Field'
- Ceasefire
- The Aftermath
- Contradictory conspiracy theories
- A struggle about democracy?
- Countermoves against Russian re-emergence?
- Dissident voices
- The European Union blames Georgia most, which embarrasses the EU presidency
- Notes
- 13. After the war: renewed political clashes
- Attempted coup
- or fake?
- Was it a CIA-led coup?
- Notes
- 9. The revolutionary honeymoon
- Successes and failures
- The presidential election of 2004
- The brain of the revolution
- Towards one-party democracy?
- Reconciliation with Russia?
- Deteriorating relations with Russia
- The end of the honeymoon
- Notes
- 10. The death of Zhvania
- the revolution loses its brain
- A Green realist
- Zurab as political psychotherapist
- Was Zhvania assassinated?
- Repercussions of the death of Zhvania
- A great loss
- Notes
- 11. Saakashvili, the failed liberator
- Minister, mayor, president.