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Thursday, 06 November 2014

CACI Forum: Crisis in Georgia, Round Two: Will America Respond? (Video)

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Thursday, November 6, 2014 from 12 PM to 2 PM

CACI Forum

On Nov. 4, Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania was abruptly removed from office. Alasania was the leading official champion of Georgia’s “Euro-Atlantic Choice.” Appointed by the founder of the Georgian Dream coalition, tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili, Alasania was the leader of the Free Democrat Party.

The firing of Alasania is accompanied by greatly intensifying Russian pressure on Georgia. It opens a split within the coalition government and potentially marks a fundamental geopolitical shift in the Caucasus in Moscow’s favor. These events raise obvious parallels with events in Ukraine when Yanukovich abruptly turned toward Moscow. Coming in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it threatens the future of the East-West axis connecting Europe to Central Asia, which both Republican and Democratic administrations have worked hard over two decades to achieve.

 

Featuring:  Mamuka Tsereteli, Svante Cornell, [further speakers TBA]

Moderator:  S Frederick Starr

 

Location

Johns Hopkins University - SAIS
Room 806 (8th floor)
1619 Massachusetts Ave.,  NW
Washington, DC  20036

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