Modernization in Georgia

Giga Zedania is professor and rector of Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied philosophy, sociology and cultural studies in Georgia, USA, Hungary and Germany. His has authored and edited numerous publications on the history of political thought, social theory and transformation of post-soviet societies.

• Giga Zedania: Introduction. Modernization in Georgia: Theories, Discourses, Realities – Ghia Nodia: Revisiting the Concept: Georgia’s Multiple Modernizations – Nino Doborjginidze: Historical Aspects of Modernity in Georgia – Timothy Blauvelt: The Entangled Modernities of Soviet Georgia – Adrian Brisku: The Place of «Europe» in Post-Soviet Georgian Modernization Discourse – David Darchiashvili: Soviet Path Dependency as an Impediment of the Democratization in Georgia – Giorgi Gvalia/Bidzina Lebanidze: Geopolitics and Modernization: Understanding Georgia’s Pro-Western Assertiveness since the Rose Revolution – Hans Gutbrod: Social Capital in Georgia: Four Challenges for Modernizers – Oliver Reisner Mokalake: On the Specifics of the Development of Civil Society in Georgia – Emzar Jgerenaia/Giorgi Sabanadze Georgia: Between a State and a Homeland