Reflections on the Rose Revolution
In: European security, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 5-15
ISSN: 1746-1545
In: European security, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 5-15
ISSN: 1746-1545
In: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8V414QM
The Rose Revolution represented a victory not only for the Georgian people but for democracy globally. The revolution that took as its symbol a red rose demonstrated that, by aggressively contesting elections, exercising basic freedoms of speech and assembly, and applying smart strategic thinking, a democratic opposition can defeat a weak semi-democratic kleptocracy.
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In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 103, Heft 675, S. 342-348
ISSN: 1944-785X
The Rose Revolution represented a victory not only for the Georgian people but for democracy globally. [It] & demonstrated that, by aggressively contesting elections, exercising basic freedoms of speech and assembly, and applying smart strategic thinking, a democratic opposition can defeat a weak semi-democratic kleptocracy.
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 103, Heft 675, S. 342-348
ISSN: 0011-3530
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of democracy, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 110-124
ISSN: 1086-3214
The reign of strongman presidents and the routine use of electoral fraud and manipulation have produced widespread apathy, resignation, and cynicism about the prospects for democracy in the Caucasus. In the fall of 2003, these trends dominated the presidential elections in Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the parliamentary elections in Georgia. But shortly after the elections, a brief and nonviolent series of mass protests in Tbilisi—the so-called Revolution of the Roses—forced Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze and his Citizens' Union of Georgia (CUG) to resign, and paved the way for democratic reform under Mikhail Saakashvili of the New National Movement. The inspiring events in Georgia hold a number of lessons for students of democratization and prodemocracy activists alike, and should make us reconsider the methods by which fragile openings to democracy may be sustained and widened.
In: Journal of democracy, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 110-124
ISSN: 1045-5736
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In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 33-48
ISSN: 1474-449X
In: Insight Turkey, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 50-66
ISSN: 1302-177X
World Affairs Online
In: Central Asia and the Caucasus: journal of social and political studies, Heft 2/32, S. 7-15
ISSN: 1404-6091
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In: Central and Eastern Europe in transition Vol. [7]
In: The Caucasus & globalization: journal of social, political and economic studies, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 54-67
ISSN: 1819-7353
World Affairs Online
In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 657-668
ISSN: 0030-4387
World Affairs Online
In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 669-676
ISSN: 0030-4387
World Affairs Online
In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 669-676
ISSN: 0030-4387
In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 657-667
ISSN: 0030-4387