GEORGIA’S FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE OCTOBER 2012 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Keywords:
Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, foreign policy, the Rose Revolution, the Georgian Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili, Abkhazia, South OsAbstract
The author looks at the key foreign policy trends and changes that became obvious after the parliamentary elections of October 2012.
The article’s first part describes Georgia’s foreign policy under President Saakashvili when Georgia received its first conceptual documents—the National Security Concept and the Military Doctrine—both geared toward Europe and the closest possible cooperation with NATO, revised regional relations, and a new agenda.
The second part deals with the changes in Georgia’s foreign policy that took place after the presidential elections of 1 October, 2012, when the opposition Georgian Dream Coalition won the majority of seats in the Georgian parliament and the post of prime minister for its leader, Bidzina Ivanishvili. The newly emerging relations between Georgia and Russia and the efforts of the Georgian leaders to resume their dialog with Moscow are also analyzed.
The concluding part offers an overview of Georgia’s relations with the European structures, its progress toward an association with the European Union, the course of the talks, and the way this association will affect the main spheres of the country’s life.
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