1. Stuck between East and West

2. 4th theme: External challenges and internal bewilderment
Weak State Syndrome
Geopolitical rivalry and conceptual search
Clash of Values and state models
Return to security theories: RSC vs Hantingtoian civilisations etc.
Sources: www+ Roberd Levgold, Bruno Coppieters, “Statehood and Security”; The South Caucasus 2018; Hanf/Nodia (once again)

3. Independence 1991-2003. How real?
Buzan/Waever: weak state lacks empirical sovereignty; it remains a forum of competing sub-state actors
Conflicts and confrontations (Abkhazia, South Ossetia, as well as Tbilisi, Samegrelo, Javakhetia, Ajara)
Opening to the world
New Neighbors
Russia instead of the USSR

4. Pro-Western Attempts
OSCE, UN, the USA – Attempts to mitigate Russian domination over “conflict zones”
TRASECA
Council of Europe – turning point?
GUUAM
2002 – Knocking on the NATO’s door?
Differences of norms and Failed State

5. Pro-Western Breakthrough
ENP AP
Russian Troops go home
“We will join NATO”
Rudi Juliani
How about “Singapurization”?
Georgian perception about the West: Left vs Right
Between post-modern hummer and pre-modern anvil
Baltic-Black Sea Nexus?

6. August War New Assertiveness of Russia
Was the West ready? Aware of the problem?
The war through Liberal, Realist and Constructivist and lenses – “clash of values revisited”

7. Bidzina Ivanishvili: Quo Vadis?

8. Centuries old dilemma

9. Stories and theories: Summary of the Georgian politics & Context
Confrontation with Russia
Elite factionalism
Ethno-cultural cleavages
RSCT – Good starting point but regional parameters fluctuate more than Buzan imagines
Control Regimes and Elite analysis
Clash of civilisations

10. Way out To deal with Economy With Criminality Paradigm shift
No other chance but Europeanisation, but it does not depend only on Georgian choice
For the West: Realism needs revisiting, Liberalism recalled: Russia is a revisionist power; Further deliberations on Hybrid warfare and disinformation needed