Modernization in Georgia : theories, discourses and realities /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2018]
Description:	303 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Interdisciplinary studies on Central and Eastern Europe, 1661-1349 ; vol. 18. Interdisciplinary studies on Central and Eastern Europe ; v. 18.
Subject:	Post-communism -- Georgia (Republic) Civil society. Geopolitics. Social capital (Sociology) Georgia (Republic) -- History -- 1991- Georgia (Republic) -- Economic conditions -- 1991- Georgia (Republic) -- Social conditions -- 1991- Georgia. Georgia (Republic) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13443013

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Other authors / contributors:	Zedania, Giga, editor.
ISBN:	9783034332132 3034332130 9783034332149 (pdf) 9783034332156 (mobi) z9783034332163 (epub) 3034332149 3034332157
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	The book is a collection of articles treating the question of modernization in Georgia. It is an interdisciplinary volume, comprising the studies from disciplines of history, political science, sociology and international relations. The texts deal with the topic from various angles, creating a rich and multifaceted picture: theories of modernization, history of modernization and Europeanization efforts in Georgia from the 19ths century to the present day, Soviet past and its influence on the present socio-political processes, interrelation between foreign policy and modernization project, social capital and civil society, state and nation in the Caucasus. The book takes into account both theoretical and historical dimensions of the topic, presents various interpretations of the concept of modernization and discusses how distinct processes and projects of modernizing society existed in different historical epochs in Georgia--back cover.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Modernization in Georgia: Theories, Discourses, Realities
2. Revisiting the Concept: Georgia's Multiple Modernizations
3. Historical Aspects of Modernity in Georgia
4. The Entangled Modernities of Soviet Georgia
5. The Place of "Europe" in the Post-Soviet Georgian Modernization Discourse
6. Soviet Path Dependency as an Impediment to Democratization in Georgia
7. Geopolitics and Modernization: Understanding Georgia's Pro-Western Assertiveness since the Rose Revolution
8. Social Capital in Georgia - Four Challenges for Modernizers
9. On the Specifics of the Development of Civil Society in Georgia
10. Georgia: Between a State and a Homeland
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