CACI Forum

Bridging the Gap: the Environment and Economic Development in Georgia

Wednesday, November 18, 2015, from 5 to 7 p.m.
(reception at 5 p.m., followed by main program at 5:30)

Speakers:

Kulsum Ahmed
Practice Manager, Europe and Central Asia, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, The World Bank

Adriana Damianova
Team Leader of the CEA, Europe and Central Asia, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, The World Bank

Mamuka Tsereteli,
Research Director, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

Moderator:  S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

Location: 
Rome Building Auditorium
SAIS - Johns Hopkins University
1619 Massachusetts Ave.,  NW
Washington, DC  20036

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How Georgia Stamped Out Corruption on Campus

By Johanna Popjanevski

June 2015

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Over the last several years a gradual politicization of justice in Georgia has put into question the country’s democratization progress. Most attention has centered on the judicial campaign launched beginning in late 2012 against a number of former government officials, including former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been ordered to pre-trial detention in absentia. This policy of selective justice has resulted in domestic as well as international criticism and raises important questions with regard to the independence of the judicial structures and, overall, the current state of the rule of law in Georgia.This paper examines the question of the politicization of justice in light of two key issues: first, the degree to which the prosecution is under the influence of the executive; and second, whether arrests of key individuals are purely punitive, or seek to weaken political opponents.

By Svante E. Cornell, Niklas L.P. Swanström, Anara Tabyshalieva, Georgi Tcheishvili

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By S. Frederick Starr & Svante E. Cornell (Eds.)

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Table of Contents

Contributors 5

1. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: School of Modernity 7
S. Frederick Starr

2. Geostrategic Implications of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline 17
Svante E. Cornell, Mamuka Tsereteli and Vladimir Socor

3. Economic Implications of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline 39
Jonathan Elkind

4. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Implications for Azerbaijan 61
Svante E. Cornell and Fariz Ismailzade

5. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Implications for Georgia 85
Vladimer Papava

6. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Implications for Turkey 103
Zeyno Baran

7. Environmental and Social Aspects of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline 119
David Blatchford