Georgia After the 2008 War: Conflict Analysis
Two post-war research studies explain why the Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts resisted settlement, why EU mediation after 2008 delivered little, and where regional cooperation showed promise.
Reports on the South Caucasus: Georgia’s breakaway regions, the Nagorno-Karabakh mediation track and the regional cooperation initiatives that tried to bridge them. Each analysis reads the current situation against the documented history of the conflicts.
Two post-war research studies explain why the Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts resisted settlement, why EU mediation after 2008 delivered little, and where regional cooperation showed promise.
Three decades of Nagorno-Karabakh mediation ended in force, not agreement. What the Minsk Group era, the 2020 war and the 2023 exodus teach about timing and guarantees.
How official negotiations, track two diplomacy and back-channel talks combine in peace processes, and what decades of practice say about sequencing, risks and coordination.