The national narratives of most European peoples celebrate their moment of settlement into a part... more The national narratives of most European peoples celebrate their moment of settlement into a particular place, an end to nomadic wandering, and the taking up of agriculture (and Christianity). It is striking that Americans celebrate not our settlement but rather our movement—setting off for the frontier. The liberal narrative of America as a “universal nation” corresponds to this unsettledness: to be a “universal” nation is precisely not to be a nation, agens. Traditional conservatives have been endeavoring to settle America, to celebrate our arrival and not our departure, our actuality and not our potentiality, to bring Americans to see their national experience both as more particular than universal (which is to say, ideological) and as more in continuity with European precedents than in discontinuity; hence, Russell Kirk’s determined effort to view the American War of Independence as “a revolution not made but prevented” and his Eurocentric account of “the roots of American order...
The end of 20-th century was marked by an increase in the number of ethnopolitical conflicts thro... more The end of 20-th century was marked by an increase in the number of ethnopolitical conflicts throught the world. The redrawing of the political map of the world in the last century, following the results of the world wars, the elimination of colonial system and the collapse of empires, has affected the growth of ethnic confrontations in modern society. In view of the fact that any conflict inside the state is always detrimental to social-economic and political development of the country, and the world is full of polyethnic states, the birth of new interethnic contradictions, can affect the stability and security of the entire world community. In this regard, particular importance in the policy of each state, is the deep study of the characteristics of ethnic clashes, for the subsequent development of mechanisms for their forecasting, regulation and prevention. In this Thesis I will try ty examin the Conflicts in South Caucasus: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Naghorno-Karabakh
he lives of children in Georgia are still largely affected today by a series of historical and Ec... more he lives of children in Georgia are still largely affected today by a series of historical and Economic trends through which the country has gone over the past decades. While the Soviet legacy has induced a tradition of high and nearly universal educational and social standards, it has also established strong trends of institutionalisation and central State control over children, especially over those in difficult situations. Transition to market economy has radically affected the quality and resources of State provisions and interventions in favour of all children, without eradicating their harshness on the most deprived. At the same time, children’s lifestyles and family situations now reflect the challenges of transition, allowing for more diverse opportunities but also for more risks, such as those induced by poverty, life on the street, child labour, substance abuse, and crime. The socio-economic situation is slightly improving since 1995, but the effects of transition and the ...
History cannot be reminded, but it is worth studying for what we can learn from it and apply to t... more History cannot be reminded, but it is worth studying for what we can learn from it and apply to the present and the future. Russia is one of history’s great survivors. She has existed for more than a thousand year, and for part of that time she has been one of the largest powers on our planet. Today she is one of the most formidable powers in Eurasia, and it will remain so. This book is an attempt to seek the roots of our ambivalence, toward Russia and of Russians’ ambivalence toward their own country. It focuses on the variety of identities; which Russia has assumed over the centuries. The aim of this book is to provide a basis for analyzing and understanding the particular aspects of existence of Soviet Union, the reasons of her collapse and the perspectives that Russia has today. The disintegration of Soviet Union has left Russia searching for a new basis for its security policy and grappling with the question of whether Russia is a superpower or ‘just’ a regional great power. In...
At the beginning of the 21st century the problem of the development of the regional security beco... more At the beginning of the 21st century the problem of the development of the regional security becomes increasingly actual in nowadays international politics. It especially concerns the Post-soviet space, which remains in the most difficult process of transformation in the present days. The Georgian-Abkhaz conflict which has entered a sharp phase in 1992 is one of the first and most long (from 1992 to 2008) international conflicts in the former Soviet Union. Complex factors such as the deep roots of the confrontation, the great human sacrifices of the parties during the hostilities, the high degree of involvement of the entire population of Abkhazia in the process of defending its interests and the asymmetry in the approaches of the parties, determine the need for an analysis of the nature and the origins of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict in its dynamics. The work therefore trys to identify the nature and the origins of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, the causes of inefficiency of the ...
The national narratives of most European peoples celebrate their moment of settlement into a part... more The national narratives of most European peoples celebrate their moment of settlement into a particular place, an end to nomadic wandering, and the taking up of agriculture (and Christianity). It is striking that Americans celebrate not our settlement but rather our movement—setting off for the frontier. The liberal narrative of America as a “universal nation” corresponds to this unsettledness: to be a “universal” nation is precisely not to be a nation, agens. Traditional conservatives have been endeavoring to settle America, to celebrate our arrival and not our departure, our actuality and not our potentiality, to bring Americans to see their national experience both as more particular than universal (which is to say, ideological) and as more in continuity with European precedents than in discontinuity; hence, Russell Kirk’s determined effort to view the American War of Independence as “a revolution not made but prevented” and his Eurocentric account of “the roots of American order...
The end of 20-th century was marked by an increase in the number of ethnopolitical conflicts thro... more The end of 20-th century was marked by an increase in the number of ethnopolitical conflicts throught the world. The redrawing of the political map of the world in the last century, following the results of the world wars, the elimination of colonial system and the collapse of empires, has affected the growth of ethnic confrontations in modern society. In view of the fact that any conflict inside the state is always detrimental to social-economic and political development of the country, and the world is full of polyethnic states, the birth of new interethnic contradictions, can affect the stability and security of the entire world community. In this regard, particular importance in the policy of each state, is the deep study of the characteristics of ethnic clashes, for the subsequent development of mechanisms for their forecasting, regulation and prevention. In this Thesis I will try ty examin the Conflicts in South Caucasus: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Naghorno-Karabakh
he lives of children in Georgia are still largely affected today by a series of historical and Ec... more he lives of children in Georgia are still largely affected today by a series of historical and Economic trends through which the country has gone over the past decades. While the Soviet legacy has induced a tradition of high and nearly universal educational and social standards, it has also established strong trends of institutionalisation and central State control over children, especially over those in difficult situations. Transition to market economy has radically affected the quality and resources of State provisions and interventions in favour of all children, without eradicating their harshness on the most deprived. At the same time, children’s lifestyles and family situations now reflect the challenges of transition, allowing for more diverse opportunities but also for more risks, such as those induced by poverty, life on the street, child labour, substance abuse, and crime. The socio-economic situation is slightly improving since 1995, but the effects of transition and the ...
History cannot be reminded, but it is worth studying for what we can learn from it and apply to t... more History cannot be reminded, but it is worth studying for what we can learn from it and apply to the present and the future. Russia is one of history’s great survivors. She has existed for more than a thousand year, and for part of that time she has been one of the largest powers on our planet. Today she is one of the most formidable powers in Eurasia, and it will remain so. This book is an attempt to seek the roots of our ambivalence, toward Russia and of Russians’ ambivalence toward their own country. It focuses on the variety of identities; which Russia has assumed over the centuries. The aim of this book is to provide a basis for analyzing and understanding the particular aspects of existence of Soviet Union, the reasons of her collapse and the perspectives that Russia has today. The disintegration of Soviet Union has left Russia searching for a new basis for its security policy and grappling with the question of whether Russia is a superpower or ‘just’ a regional great power. In...
At the beginning of the 21st century the problem of the development of the regional security beco... more At the beginning of the 21st century the problem of the development of the regional security becomes increasingly actual in nowadays international politics. It especially concerns the Post-soviet space, which remains in the most difficult process of transformation in the present days. The Georgian-Abkhaz conflict which has entered a sharp phase in 1992 is one of the first and most long (from 1992 to 2008) international conflicts in the former Soviet Union. Complex factors such as the deep roots of the confrontation, the great human sacrifices of the parties during the hostilities, the high degree of involvement of the entire population of Abkhazia in the process of defending its interests and the asymmetry in the approaches of the parties, determine the need for an analysis of the nature and the origins of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict in its dynamics. The work therefore trys to identify the nature and the origins of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, the causes of inefficiency of the ...
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