Kornely Kakachia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kornely Kakachia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kornely |
| FAMILY NAME | Kakachia |
| SIGNATURE | KAKACHIA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tbilisi State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8324-4021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contested Securitisation of Migration in the Post-Soviet Space
The Kremlin’s war in Ukraine since February 2022 has triggered an influx of Russian migrants into Georgia, to which elite Georgian groups have responded in a contradictory manner. While the ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD), has presented the migration wave primarily as an economic opportunity, the opposition and civil society have portrayed the event as a security threat, and demanded an immediate response to stem the flow of Russian migrants. T…
The Price of Coercion
While much has been written recently about the geopolitical assertiveness of a resurgent Russia in its neighborhood, few studies so far have focused on the importance of economic rationales in Russia’s decision-making. Economic variables can contribute to a more nuanced picture of the factors that determine the timing and extent of Russia’s coercive policy in the neighborhood. This article seeks to explain the differential reaction of Russia to G…
Can Small States Reshape Their Regional Identities? Examining Georgia’s Cognitive Dissonance between South Caucasus and Eastern Europe
Georgia represents an interesting case to study the agency of small states in reshaping their regional identity and external environment. Although much of the world has considered Georgia as politically part of the South Caucasus region, the country’s political elites themselves have long attempted to escape the geographic boundaries of the South Caucasus region and relocate their country into Eastern Europe. We argue that Georgian elites were pa…
Can the EU’s new global strategy make a difference? Strengthening resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries
This article assesses the European Union’s (EU) performance in promoting societal resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries (EaP) on examples of Georgia and Ukraine. We examine two approaches to external resilience-building employed by the EU: support for the sources of societal resilience (social trust, legitimacy of governance actors, design of governance institutions) and prevention of domestic and external risks. Our research shows that…
Out of the shadow? Georgia’s emerging strategies of engagement in the Eastern Partnership
When the Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009, the core motivation was to supplement the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) with an improved eastern dimension. The EaP was conceived to offer more incentives and rewards, thereby shifting the manner of cooperation to more partnership and away from asymmetry. This article analyses the intentions and effects of the EaP in the case of EU-Georgia relations by investigating two modes of coope…
Defying marginality
This article explores Ukraine’s and Georgia’s attempts to reshape the dynamics of their relations with the EU by moving from Europe’s peripheral status towards becoming part of Europe. The drive of the two post-Soviet countries towards European core is explained by both consequentialist (seeking defence from Russia) and ideational (Europe as civilization choice) incentives. The Europeanization school of the neoinstitutionalist paradigm is used to…
Change and Continuity in the Foreign Policies of Small States
The 2012 parliamentary elections witnessed Georgia’s first peaceful post-independence transfer of power. Under Bidzina Ivanishvili, the government formed by the Georgian Dream Coalition significantly softened the harsh anti-Russia rhetoric of Saakashvili’s ‘National Movement’, launching a policy aimed at normalising relations with Russia. Such a shift of a steady, almost decade-long counter-Russian foreign policy resists explanation by structural…
Identity politics
This paper analyses the extent to which Georgia's pro-Western foreign policy orientation stems from ideas and identity rather than from materialist and systemic factors alone. Finding such narrow approaches insufficient for explaining small state behavior, and drawing on liberal and constructivist approaches to international relations theory, the article argues that Georgia's foreign policy orientation has a strong basis in the widespread ideolog…
Challenges to the South Caucasus Regional Security Aftermath of Russian–Georgian Conflict
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Caspian Sea and South Caucasus has become the focus of considerable international attention, primary because it is one of the oldest and potentially richest oil and gas producing areas in the world. The August 2008 Russian invasion of the Georgia and the unilateral recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia fundamentally changed the situation in the region. The war has created a new s…
Identity politics
This paper analyses the extent to which Georgia's pro-Western foreign policy orientation stems from ideas and identity rather than from materialist and systemic factors alone. Finding such narrow approaches insufficient for explaining small state behavior, and drawing on liberal and constructivist approaches to international relations theory, the article argues that Georgia's foreign policy orientation has a strong basis in the widespread ideolog…
Change and Continuity in the Foreign Policies of Small States
The 2012 parliamentary elections witnessed Georgia’s first peaceful post-independence transfer of power. Under Bidzina Ivanishvili, the government formed by the Georgian Dream Coalition significantly softened the harsh anti-Russia rhetoric of Saakashvili’s ‘National Movement’, launching a policy aimed at normalising relations with Russia. Such a shift of a steady, almost decade-long counter-Russian foreign policy resists explanation by structural…
Can the EU’s new global strategy make a difference? Strengthening resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries
This article assesses the European Union’s (EU) performance in promoting societal resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries (EaP) on examples of Georgia and Ukraine. We examine two approaches to external resilience-building employed by the EU: support for the sources of societal resilience (social trust, legitimacy of governance actors, design of governance institutions) and prevention of domestic and external risks. Our research shows that…
Challenges to the South Caucasus Regional Security Aftermath of Russian–Georgian Conflict
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Caspian Sea and South Caucasus has become the focus of considerable international attention, primary because it is one of the oldest and potentially richest oil and gas producing areas in the world. The August 2008 Russian invasion of the Georgia and the unilateral recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia fundamentally changed the situation in the region. The war has created a new s…
Can Small States Reshape Their Regional Identities? Examining Georgia’s Cognitive Dissonance between South Caucasus and Eastern Europe
Georgia represents an interesting case to study the agency of small states in reshaping their regional identity and external environment. Although much of the world has considered Georgia as politically part of the South Caucasus region, the country’s political elites themselves have long attempted to escape the geographic boundaries of the South Caucasus region and relocate their country into Eastern Europe. We argue that Georgian elites were pa…
Defying marginality
This article explores Ukraine’s and Georgia’s attempts to reshape the dynamics of their relations with the EU by moving from Europe’s peripheral status towards becoming part of Europe. The drive of the two post-Soviet countries towards European core is explained by both consequentialist (seeking defence from Russia) and ideational (Europe as civilization choice) incentives. The Europeanization school of the neoinstitutionalist paradigm is used to…
Challenges to the South Caucasus Regional Security Aftermath of Russian–Georgian Conflict
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Caspian Sea and South Caucasus has become the focus of considerable international attention, primary because it is one of the oldest and potentially richest oil and gas producing areas in the world. The August 2008 Russian invasion of the Georgia and the unilateral recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia fundamentally changed the situation in the region. The war has created a new s…
Identity politics
This paper analyses the extent to which Georgia's pro-Western foreign policy orientation stems from ideas and identity rather than from materialist and systemic factors alone. Finding such narrow approaches insufficient for explaining small state behavior, and drawing on liberal and constructivist approaches to international relations theory, the article argues that Georgia's foreign policy orientation has a strong basis in the widespread ideolog…
Change and Continuity in the Foreign Policies of Small States
The 2012 parliamentary elections witnessed Georgia’s first peaceful post-independence transfer of power. Under Bidzina Ivanishvili, the government formed by the Georgian Dream Coalition significantly softened the harsh anti-Russia rhetoric of Saakashvili’s ‘National Movement’, launching a policy aimed at normalising relations with Russia. Such a shift of a steady, almost decade-long counter-Russian foreign policy resists explanation by structural…
Out of the shadow? Georgia’s emerging strategies of engagement in the Eastern Partnership
When the Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009, the core motivation was to supplement the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) with an improved eastern dimension. The EaP was conceived to offer more incentives and rewards, thereby shifting the manner of cooperation to more partnership and away from asymmetry. This article analyses the intentions and effects of the EaP in the case of EU-Georgia relations by investigating two modes of coope…
Defying marginality
This article explores Ukraine’s and Georgia’s attempts to reshape the dynamics of their relations with the EU by moving from Europe’s peripheral status towards becoming part of Europe. The drive of the two post-Soviet countries towards European core is explained by both consequentialist (seeking defence from Russia) and ideational (Europe as civilization choice) incentives. The Europeanization school of the neoinstitutionalist paradigm is used to…
Can the EU’s new global strategy make a difference? Strengthening resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries
This article assesses the European Union’s (EU) performance in promoting societal resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries (EaP) on examples of Georgia and Ukraine. We examine two approaches to external resilience-building employed by the EU: support for the sources of societal resilience (social trust, legitimacy of governance actors, design of governance institutions) and prevention of domestic and external risks. Our research shows that…
Can Small States Reshape Their Regional Identities? Examining Georgia’s Cognitive Dissonance between South Caucasus and Eastern Europe
Georgia represents an interesting case to study the agency of small states in reshaping their regional identity and external environment. Although much of the world has considered Georgia as politically part of the South Caucasus region, the country’s political elites themselves have long attempted to escape the geographic boundaries of the South Caucasus region and relocate their country into Eastern Europe. We argue that Georgian elites were pa…
Contested Securitisation of Migration in the Post-Soviet Space
The Kremlin’s war in Ukraine since February 2022 has triggered an influx of Russian migrants into Georgia, to which elite Georgian groups have responded in a contradictory manner. While the ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD), has presented the migration wave primarily as an economic opportunity, the opposition and civil society have portrayed the event as a security threat, and demanded an immediate response to stem the flow of Russian migrants. T…
The Price of Coercion
While much has been written recently about the geopolitical assertiveness of a resurgent Russia in its neighborhood, few studies so far have focused on the importance of economic rationales in Russia’s decision-making. Economic variables can contribute to a more nuanced picture of the factors that determine the timing and extent of Russia’s coercive policy in the neighborhood. This article seeks to explain the differential reaction of Russia to G…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Development economics (3 works)