South Caucasus

Civil society in Azerbaijan and Georgia is under profound pressure from authoritarian restrictions and declining Western aid, leaving many NGOs in dormancy. Their resilience hinges on transforming organizational behaviors and resource considerations.

The Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence hinders Georgian accession to the EU and has drawn massive protests by Georgian society. In this context we asked three questions to Dr. Sonja Schiffers, Director of our South Caucasus office in Tbilisi, on how she views the latest developments.

This web dossier from our Tbilissi office examines how feminist foreign policy can be applied in practice in the context of the South Caucasus.

Georgia’s escalating political turbulence highlights a crisis in institutional legitimacy in the country. This democratic deficit risks dragging the country into autocratic rule and reproducing the worst elements of its northern neighbour.

The three countries of the South Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, have so far dealt with the corona crisis relatively well, as they started early to close state institutions and shut down public life. The governments of the three countries’ were aware of the threat that their health systems could collapse because of a rapid increase of infections.