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22 May 2015
Nino Doghonadze, Eric Livny
Europe Wants Georgia. But Not Georgians
In March 2015, 31-year-old Tamar Trapaidze died of severe toxicity in Italy. Like many Georgian women of her generation, Tamar was an illegal immigrant employed as an in-home care worker by an Italian family. Being “illegal”, she must have feared deportation, which is probably why she was unable to receive adequate medical treatment.
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15 May 2015
Jan Klingelhofer
The Paradox of Soviet Excellence
Here is a question that has bothered me for a while and I am surprised that nobody else seems to have asked it before: How comes Western countries had the better orchestras (collectives) and the Soviet Union the better classical music soloists during the Cold War? Would one not expect the contrary?
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12 May 2015
Michael Fuenfzig
Rockets and Feathers – Georgian Fuel Market
The blog piece is available only in Georgian.
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11 May 2015
Martin Smith
Georgia in the Cycle of History
The second of May, 2015, may well go unnoticed by historians of the future; but I am convinced that it marks a watershed not only in Georgia’s recent evolution – but also, maybe, in the history of our times...
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08 May 2015
Salome Gelashvili, Eric Livny
What Kind of "State" Does a Country Need?
Some twenty five year later, the world is once again rife with “contradictions” (the elimination of which is key to understanding Fukuyama’s end-of-history Hegelian thinking). These contradictions are most evident in the ever intensifying migration debates in Europe and the US, renewed trade wars, geopolitical rivalries and religious conflicts.
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04 May 2015
Philippe Rudaz
How the Age Structure Impairs “Inclusive Growth” in Rural Georgia
Currently, farming in Georgia is a “by default activity” – the vast majority of Georgian “farmers” are not really farmers in a professional sense but rather people who try to survive by growing agricultural products. When traveling through Georgia’s countryside, one sees immediately that it is mainly the older generation which has to resort to this default activity.
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