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Tbilisi-based non-profit, non-partisan, research and analysis organization strives to promote good governance in Georgia.

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📣 In light of the current political circumstances, the Georgian Institute of Politics has decided to suspend its operations indefinitely.

We extend our sincere gratitude to all our partners, donors, and friends for their continued support and commitment over the years❗

06.10.2025 08:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hope on Hold: Georgia’s Battle For Democracy In the third decade of the 21st century, the global wave of democratic decline has become increasingly evident, and Georgia is no longer an exception to this unsettling trend. Once hailed as a model o...

#Compendium2025
Hope on Hold: Georgia’s Battle For #Democracy

🔎 Once again, GIP is pleased to present a collection of 2025 policy documents addressing current and actual political processes, challenges, and prospects in #Georgia

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30.05.2025 07:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Produced with Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in the framework of the project “Georgian Civil Society for EU Integration #GEO4EU”, supported by the #FederalForeignOffice through the #CivilSocietyCooperation Programme for the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.

23.05.2025 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Speaking Out, Staying Out: The Paradox of Political Participation in Georgia For the last six month, Georgia has been spiraling towards authoritarianism with the one-party parliament curtailing fundamental freedoms with a new law or amendments almost weekly. On the other hand,...

#PolicyMemo
Speaking Out, Staying Out: The Paradox of Political Participation in #Georgia

✍️ Shota Kakabadze

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23.05.2025 11:17 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Banning Political Parties in Georgia: “Militant Democracy” or a Double-Edged Sword? The Multi-Party system and pluralism in Georgia have experienced a significant regression in recent years. The principles of fair competition between parties in the political arena and the guarantees ...

#PolicyMemo
Banning Political Parties in Georgia: “Militant Democracy” or a Double-Edged Sword?

✍️ Salome Kandelaki

#Georgia #Politicalparties #Politicalcrisis #Democracy

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21.05.2025 10:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🔎 The event was organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in collaboration with the Embassy of Ukraine to Georgia and CASE.

19.05.2025 06:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GIP at Strategic Dialogue Public Session On May 14, 2025, the Georgian Institute of Politics participated in a conference titled

📣 On May 14, 2025, the Georgian Institute of Politics participated in a conference titled “Strategic Dialogue Public Session: Russian Threat and Its Perceptions – Lessons Learned from #Poland, #Ukraine, and #Georgia.”

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19.05.2025 06:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Aligned or Multi-aligned? Georgia’s Foreign Policy in Flux Georgia faces a mutually reinforcing domestic and foreign policy crisis. At home, unprecedented autocratization is met with unprecedented democratic resistance. In foreign policy, an increasingly auth...

#Perspective
Aligned or Multi-aligned? #Georgia’s Foreign Policy in Flux

✍️ Irakli Sirbiladze

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14.05.2025 06:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Politics of Party Bans and Their Potential Implications for Georgia’s Democracy At the invitation of the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), a selection of foreign and Georgian experts have given their responses to the following questions

#ExpertComments
The Politics of Party Bans and Their Potential Implications for Georgia’s #Democracy

🔎 At the invitation of the GIP, a selection of foreign and Georgian experts responded to the questions

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07.05.2025 13:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Final Push of “Georgian Dream” Toward One-Party Rule: The Georgian Parliament at The Forefront of Legal Authoritarianism Under the Georgian Dream, Georgia is experiencing democracy backsliding at a speed unprecedented in its history as an independent nation. According to renowned international indexes, the country’s dem...

#PolicyMemo
The Final Push of “Georgian Dream” Toward One-Party Rule: The #GeorgianParliament at The Forefront of Legal #Authoritarianism

✍️ Nino Samkharadze

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07.05.2025 09:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Russia’s Generational Legacy Reveals About Its Path to 2045 How three generations shaped by collapse, control, and conflict will influence Russia’s political trajectory over the next two decades

#Blog
What Russia’s Generational Legacy Reveals About Its Path to 2045
✍️ Murad Nasibov

* An earlier version of this blog was published at Eurasian Geopolitics Reader

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06.05.2025 09:30 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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UK-Georgia Relations: How Has the UK’s Relationship with Georgia Changed Since Brexit, and What Does the Future Hold? When the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the event was predicted to have a huge impact – not only on the EU itself, but also on the countries in its Eastern neighbourhood, including Geor...

#PolicyMemo

UK-Georgia Relations: How Has the #UK’s Relationship with #Georgia Changed Since Brexit, and What Does the Future Hold?

✍️ Anna Russell

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02.05.2025 11:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Limits of Democracy Protection in Georgia In 2024, democracy broke down in Georgia as it experienced ‘the largest one-year decline’ since its independence (Nord et al. 2025). As a result, Georgia joined the list of electoral autocracies in th...

#PolicyMemo
The Limits of Democracy Protection in #Georgia

✍️ Elene Panchulidze, Ana Andguladze

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28.04.2025 11:29 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Peace policy is dead. Beware the peace, Georgia! For several days now, Georgian society has been closely following the meetings of the parliamentary commission created by Georgian Dream, where high-ranking military and police officials who participa...

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Peace policy is dead. Beware the peace, Georgia!

✍️ Medea Turashvili
"What is Georgia’s #peacepolicy today and can it provide the citizens of #Georgia with peace and #security?"

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28.04.2025 08:21 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Study Visit to NATO Headquarters in Brussels On April 15, the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, in coordination with the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), hosted a study visit for Georgian experts, academics, and journalists at NATO Headquarte...

📣 On April 15, the #NATO Public Diplomacy Division, in coordination with #GIP, hosted a study visit for Georgian experts, academics, and journalists at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

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22.04.2025 08:40 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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GIP at Workshop on European Security and the Black Sea Region The Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP) participated in the high-level workshop “Ukraine and the EU in the Black Sea – Hard and Soft Security Challenges” organized by the French Institute of Internat...

📣 GIP participated in the high-level workshop “#Ukraine and the #EU in the #BlackSea – Hard and Soft Security Challenges” organized by the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) in Paris on April 10–11.

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15.04.2025 13:36 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Repercussions of Democratic Backsliding and Geopolitics on Georgia’s Economy Georgia’s economic performance has come under growing strain in recent years, shaped by both internal political turbulence and mounting geopolitical tensions. The ongoing war in Ukraine and its wide-r...

#PolicyMemo
Repercussions of Democratic Backsliding and Geopolitics on Georgia’s Economy

✍️ Tinatin Akhvlediani
"Without a decisive course correction, #Georgia risks sliding into a prolonged economic downturn..."

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14.04.2025 13:33 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Contested Securitisation of Migration in the Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Russian Migrants in Georgia Researchers of the Georgian Institute of Politics, Prof. Kornely Kakachia, Dr. Salome Minesashvili, Doctoral Candidate Salome Kandelaki, and Dr. Bidzina Lebanidze, published a scientific article title...

📣 GIP researchers published a scientific article titled “Contested Securitisation of #Migration in the Post-Soviet Space: The Case of #RussianMigrants in #Georgia” in the Italian Journal of International Affairs—The International Spectator.

11.04.2025 08:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GIP participates in CEPS Event on Civic Mobilization in EU Candidate Countries On April 1, Kornely Kakachia, Director of the Georgian Institute of Politics, took part in an event organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) think tank in Brussels

📣 Kornely Kakachia, Director of the GIP, took part in an event organized by the #CEPS think tank in Brussels.

🔎 The discussion focused on the dynamics of civic mobilization in #EU candidate countries, with particular attention to #Georgia and #Serbia

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02.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The publication has been produced with the financial support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Georgia. The opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of GIP and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Georgia

31.03.2025 13:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Georgia from Hybrid to Authoritarian Consolidation – does the public understand the scale of the risk? Lately, democracies around the world have been facing a significant crisis. According to Freedom House, Global Freedom declined for the 19th year in a row in 2024. Last year, indicators of human right...

#PolicyMemo
#Georgia from Hybrid to #Authoritarian Consolidation – does the public understand the scale of the risk?

✍️Shota Kakabadze

31.03.2025 13:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The event is organized with @IEP_Berlin in the framework of the project “Georgian Civil Society for EU Integration GEO4EU”, supported by the Federal Foreign Office through the Civil Society Cooperation Programme for the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.

27.03.2025 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GEO4EU Policy Dialogues in Zugdidi and Batumi On March 18-19, the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), in cooperation with the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) e.V. in Berlin, organized GEO4EU policy dialogues in Zugdidi and Batumi

📣 On March 18-19, #GIP, in cooperation with the Institut für Europäische Politik (#IEP) e.V. in Berlin, organized #GEO4EU policy dialogues in Zugdidi and Batumi.

#CivilSocietyCooperation #PolicyDialogue

27.03.2025 13:06 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Produced with Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in the framework of the project “Georgian Civil Society for EU Integration #GEO4EU”, supported by the #FederalForeignOffice through the #CivilSocietyCooperation Programme for the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.

21.03.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Politics of Euroscepticism in Georgia and Its Resonance in Society Georgia has been in a state of political crisis since the disputed 2024 parliamentary election, which resulted in the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) claiming victory and opposition parties claiming foul p...

#PolicyMemo
The Politics of #Euroscepticism in Georgia and Its Resonance in Society

✍️ Salome Minesashvili, Erekle Gozalishvili

#EU #Georgia #Politicalcrisis #Domesticpolitics

21.03.2025 10:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Why is the Might of the Protests Not Transformed Into Political Energy? The latest developments in Georgia indicate that the ruling Georgian Dream party does not act in the best interest of its citizens. Instead, it operates with a self-centred agenda primarily aimed at s...

#Blog
Why is the Might of the Protests Not Transformed Into Political Energy?

✍️ Salome Alania

#Georgia #Domesticpolitics

18.03.2025 10:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

* An earlier version of this commentary was published under the title ‘Europe torn between the Yalta and Helsinki models of world order’ on the website of REUNIR, a Horizon Europe project funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement nº 101132446.

18.03.2025 10:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The EU and Its Candidate Countries Torn Between the Helsinki and Yalta Models of World Order For decades, Europe has anchored its foreign policy and international outlook in the principles of multilateralism, cooperation, and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity

#Perspective
The EU and Its Candidate Countries Torn Between the Helsinki and Yalta Models of World Order 🇪🇺

✍️ Steven Blockmans @stevenblockmans.bsky.social

18.03.2025 10:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Costs of Georgia’s Self-Isolation Once considered a model for democratic reform in the post-Soviet region and often referred to as the “solar plexus of Eurasia,” Georgia now stands at a critical juncture. Decades of alignment with Eur...

#Perspective
The Costs of Georgia’s Self-Isolation

✍️Zinaida Bechná
"By deviating from its European integration path, #Georgia jeopardises its long-term connection to the Western #security and economic frameworks."

18.03.2025 09:59 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

This publication was produced with the financial support of NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division and the British Embassy in Tbilisi.

18.03.2025 09:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0