{"product_id":"georgia-revolution-and-war-9780415842532","title":"Georgia Revolution and War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe post-Soviet country of Georgia has generated surprise upon surprise. Its Rose Revolution in 2003 marked the first time an existing leadership of a post-Soviet state was forced to surrender power peacefully. The new leadership of Western-educated Mikheil Saakashvili initiated wide-ranging domestic reforms, including a large-scale, unprecedented anti-corruption drive. It also intensified relations with the West and sought membership of the EU and NATO. The Georgian leadershipâs expressed aim of re-integrating territories lost in wars in the early 1990s resulted in a devastating conflict with Russia in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll these developments, and their wider implications, receive careful yet readable attention in this collection by a truly international and specialist group of authors and practitioners. The book offers a spectrum of opinion and compelling insight into the events and decisions that have recently shaped this fascinating yet understudied country, and placed it at the foref\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. 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) \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018205036887,"sku":"9780415842532","price":82.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415842532.jpg?v=1750776011","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/georgia-revolution-and-war-9780415842532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}