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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- 1 The Historical Context -- 2 Georgian Social Democracy's National Roots -- 3 The Mesame Dasi -- 4 The Working People -- 5 The Split at Home -- 6 The Gurian Republic -- 7 The Year 1905: Shattered Dreams -- 8 New Directions -- 9 War and Revolution -- 10 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

This book explores the dilemmas of Georgian foreign policy since independence in 1991. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia -- a Caucasian republic with a fiercely independent national identity -- has sought its own special path to European modernity, a promised land of prosperity and peace. Foreign policy has sought to reconcile the dream of European identity with the reality of being a small, post-colonial nation that was governed from Russia for nearly two centuries and remains mired in border conflicts with Russia. In an era when Russian concerns about sovereignty are once again dominating geopolitics, this book interests historians, scholars of imperialism, and scholars of the former Soviet Union and its messy politics. Mariam Bibilashvili has a Ph.D. degree in Social Sciences from the University of Tsukuba, affiliated with the Special Program in Japanese and Eurasian Studies.

Intro -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author's Note -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps and Diagrams -- maps -- diagrams -- Abbreviations -- Cast of Characters -- Chronology -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- army games -- russia and war -- putin -- Part One: Before Putin -- Chapter 2: Born in Chaos -- the soviet disunion -- the august coup -- boris yeltsin: the man without the plan -- Chapter 3: A Military in Crisis -- an army gone bad -- nukes for sale? -- bringing the boys back home -- empty dreams -- 'pasha mercedes' -- Chapter 4: The First Chechen War -- resistance and resentment -- high hopes, quick defeats -- the plan -- taking grozny … -- … and losing grozny again -- Chapter 5: The Wars of Russian Assertion -- moldova's post-soviet hangover -- central asia: the tajikistan contingent -- balkan dash -- Part Two: Enter Putin -- Chapter 6: Putin's Priorities -- who is vladimir putin? -- putin in charge -- putin's ministers -- Chapter 7: The Second Chechen War -- round two -- retaking grozny -- operation wolf hunt -- the creation of 'kadyrovstan' -- lessons learned -- Chapter 8: Ivanov, the Initiator -- my name's ivanov, sergei ivanov -- the spy and the generals -- ivanov's reforms -- size does matter -- Chapter 9: Serdyukov, the Enforcer -- enter the taxman -- serdyukov's purge -- and enter makarov -- the georgian excuse -- Chapter 10: Georgia, 2008 (1): Tbilisi's Move … -- harbingers -- provoking a war -- the georgian advance -- the battle for tskhinvali -- the russian advance -- Chapter 11: Georgia, 2008 (2): … Moscow's Counter -- the tide turns -- the abkhaz front -- the audit -- did anything work well? -- Chapter 12: 'New Look' Army -- command and control: unified battle management -- the ground forces: divisions to brigades -- the air forces: rationalized -- the navy: integrated at last.

Intro -- Identities in Transition -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Culture: Critical Examinations -- Culture from the Point of View of Philosophical Anthropology -- Acknowledging and Limiting the Moral Significance of Cultural Praxis: Reflections on Cassirer's Critical Philosophy of Culture -- Part 2: Living Together: Questioning Assimilation and Integration -- Integrational Politics and Migrant Aspirations: Finding the Balance -- Thinking about Intercultural Leadership: Are We Going Deep Enough to Bridge Cultural Differences? -- Part 3: Intercultural Dialogues -- Interculturality on a Diverse Australian Campus:Identity and Interaction -- Part 4: Transnational Identities: Diaspora and Subject Formation -- Kurdish Diaspora: Creating New Contingencies in Trans-National Space -- Part 5: Transnational Identities: The European Experience -- Representations of European Cultural Identity in Mini-Europe -- Part 6: Remaking and Re-Inventing Identities -- Left-Wing Italian Jews from the 1960s to 1980s: A Fluid Identity -- How Things Are Remade Georgian: Glocalization and the Assertion of 'National' among Georgian Youth -- Disfigured Past: Unmasking the Meaning and Identity of Historic Architecture -- Part 7: Educational Institutions and the Making of Identities -- Mirroring Absences: Spatiality and the Schooling of Minorities -- Part 8: Migrants and Flexible Identities -- The (Im)migrant 'Other': Conventional and Challenging Representations of the Migrant Subject in Two Greek Plays -- Kyrgyz Feasts and Migrant Dreams: Embedding Remittances in Hybrid Social Networks -- Part 9: Authenticity, Identity and Media -- Advertising Strategy for Teenagers in Taiwan -- 'Martin was in the jungle alone, and the sun was sinking': The Weather, Culture and Identity in Virginia Woolf's The Years -- Part 10: Reaching Out, Crossing the Cultural Divide.