Georgia: The Interconnections Between Democracy and Security

Author(s): Alexander Cooley, Lincoln Mitchell
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 17
Pages: 2-4
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Jefferson Institute, Washington D.C.; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2010

Georgia needs democracy to ensure close ties with the West and prevent a recurrence of the kind of poor decision-making that led to the August 2008 war with Russia. Although Georgia made some progress in building democracy until November 2007, the events of that month and subsequently reversed those advances. The current period is marked by relative calm, but Georgia's democratic development faces key tests in the 2010 local elections, 2012 parliamentary elections, and the 2013 presidential elections.

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