GEORGIA: REGIONAL STABILITY IN THE TRANSFORMED INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

Pikria ASANISHVILI, Avtandil TUKVADZE

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Pikria Asanishvili, Ph.D. (Political Science), senior research associate, Institute of Political Science, Georgian Academy of Sciences (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Avtandil Tukvadze, D.Sc. (Political Science), professor, Department of Political Science, the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia)

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The end of the bi-polar world raised the questions of how the international system will function, and whether it will become multipolar or unipolar. Some members of the expert community believe that geopolitical rivalry in today’s multipolar world will be the only way to sort things out among the entities of geopolitics. The struggle for spheres of influence is growing fiercer. Some international factors are gaining importance, while the significance of others is waning. This was probably why Gernot Erler, a Bundestag deputy, has offered the highly thought-provoking idea that in the early 21st century we are witnessing the regression of political culture to the ideas of the 20th century. The process is gradually becoming irreversible: in the West and in the East, political decision-making depends on geopolitical and geostrategic projects to an extent which is fraught with rising tension.

Many political decisions in the international sphere are still rooted in realism, whereby state interests prevail over all other considerations. But it should be noted that many of the conceptions and approaches circulating in the world system have changed. In the 20th century, it was vitally important to place……………

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