The Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) is publishing a special issue on Georgia in July, ahead of the Parliamentary elections on the 26 of October. Dr. Lia Tsuladze, Executive Director of the Center for Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Sociology at Tbilisi State University, and a MEDIATIZED EU researcher, has contributed a paper to the issue titled “The Georgian Ruling Party’s Discursive Confrontations with Domestic and Foreign Actors”.
In the article, Dr. Tsuladze discusses the ruling party’s “discursive confrontations” with the European Union (EU) and other strategic partners, as well as with domestic political parties, non-governmental organizations, and the Georgian youth.
According to the author, these confrontations have escalated since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and peaked in 2024, when the Government reintroduced a draft law targeting civil society and independent media, in what she argues is the ruling party’s “normative and discursive disengagement from the EU and the shift of its political vector towards Russia.”
The full text will be available on the publication’s webpage, at this link.
