Russia is Stacking Both Decks in Armenia and Azerbaijan
Joseph Larsen GIP Analyst The South Caucasus countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in conflict since 1988...
Moldovan Recipe to Win the Elections: Go Domestic
Renata Skardžiūtė -Kereselidze GIP Analyst This week two Black Sea countries, Moldova and Bulgaria, elected openly pro-Russian presidential candidates. The outcomes have broad implications....
Mr. Trump Goes to Tbilisi
A US Ally Deals with Uncertainty Joseph Larsen GIP Analyst In two months, Donald Trump will be president of the United States. There are plenty of reasons to be concerned....
Single Party Rule Returns to Georgia
Joseph Larsen and Bidzina Lebanidze GIP Analysts Single party rule is returning to Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party won 48 of 50 runoff elections for majoritarian electoral districts on October 30....
Ukraine and Georgia: How Much of a Common Faith?
Dr. Volodymyr Dubovyk Director of the Center for International Studies at the Odessa I. Mechnikov National University For a number of years now Ukraine and Georgia have often been cited together as a certain tandem of countries that share their aspirations, challenges and perspectives....
European Defense Union (EDU) and Eastern Neighborhood
Nana Gurgenidze and Ioseb ‘Joseph’ Jorjoliani GIP Young Experts Network The geopolitical situation of the European Union (EU) has changed dramatically in the past months. After the British exit from the union, it became apparent that substantial changes have to be made within the organization....
Georgian Dream in Shambles
Jelger Groeneveld Board member International Security & Defense division, D66 liberal democratic party, Netherlands Western partners abandon Georgia and contribute to frustration and lack of prospects for Georgian rapprochement. Russian revisionism gets window of opportunity. After the first dem...
Consequences of Brexit on Eastern European Partnership and EU Enlargement Policy
Ioseb ‘Joseph’ Jorjoliani GIP Young Experts Network Global community witnessed a historic event on June 23rd as the United Kingdom held a referendum on whether to leave or remain in the European Union. As the results indicate a slight majority (51.8%) of UK populace chose to leave the EU....
The EU’s reluctance subverts its own values
Elene Melikishvili Ph.d candidate at Department of War Studies King’s College London A few weeks ago I went to a talk by a senior NATO official who emphasized the significance and pre-eminence of the values that the Atlantic organization aims to jointly defend with the European Union....