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Dossier

The Georgia War, Ten Years On

Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti
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Samuele Dominioni
07 August 2018

The year 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the so-called “five-day war” or "August war", namely the conflict between Georgia, Russia and the Russian-backed, self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to Ghia Nodia, the August war was a “moment of truth” for Georgia and for the region, but even for the broader international system’s equilibrium. As such, the conflict’s consequences stretched far beyond the geographic boundaries of the actors involved, having a huge impact on the whole post-Soviet region, the European Union and on warfare in general, as it marked the first use of cyber attacks in support of kinetic operations. This dossier collects a number of different views on the conflict’s consequences on Georgian politics and the region generally. On the one hand, the dossier analyses the implications of the conflict for EU foreign policy and Russia-EU relations. On the other, it also takes stock of Georgia's political changes and, particularly, its process of integration with the EU and NATO.

The Systemic Impact of the Five-Day War in Georgia
Fabrizio Vielmini
IsAG
After the Georgia War: the EU and Eastern Europe
Marco Ferraro
EU Delegation to Ukraine
The August War: A Regional Conundrum for Russia
Evgeniya Goryushina
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Road to Georgia's EU Integration
Tinatin Tsertsvadze
IPHR
NATO and Georgia: Waiting the Winter Out
Bidzina Lebanidze
University of Bremen
South Ossetia: Time to Embrace Nuance
Giorgio Comai
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa
The August War and Georgia’s Path Toward Democracy
Samuele Dominioni
ISPI

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Georgia Russia Caucasus and Central Asia
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Edited by

Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti
ISPI Research Fellow
Samuele Dominioni
ISPI Research Fellow

 

Cover Photo: Giorgi Rodionov

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