CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Laghidze, Dato |
|---|---|
| Title | Neoliberal Revolution in Georgia: Global Systems and Local Consequences |
| Summary | The present thesis is an attempt to theorize top-down neoliberalism in Georgia. This uses the World System approach to understand the macro structure and its local influences. Three chapters unveils aspects of neoliberalism from the global and local perspective. The first section is an analyzis of global capitalism, a macro turn which defined and guided the Rose Revolution in the post-Soviet Georgia. In second part, the work tries to analyze the penal system and production of coercive power to maintain the neoliberal state. The last chapter includes the nationalism as a strategy and means to maintain the neoliberal transformation. The 2003 Rose Revolution was a political and economic transformation, a very rare phenomenon in the region. |
| Supervisor | Li, Ju |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/laghidze_dato.pdf |
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