Georgian Europeanization: an ideational and institutional analysis

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Karadağ, Yelda
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This thesis explores the ‘multiple’ aspects of the Georgian Europeanization, which goes beyond the institutional integration and domestic change in accordance with the EU acquis between Georgia and the EU. This study unravels both normative/ideational and practical/institutional elements of the Europeanization path of Georgia from a social constructivist perspective. It argues that while the ideational dynamics of the Georgian Europeanization address various representations/articulations/references about how the ‘idea’ of Europe and ‘Georgian Europeanness’ are re/constructed in different ‘critical junctures’, the institutional aspect of Europeanization focuses on rather contemporary dimension with the institutional cooperation between the EU and Georgia, pertinent to legislative, administrative transformation/convergence to the Europe/EU. In order to analyze the Georgian Europeanization as a case study, this study focuses on the ‘ideational construction of Europe’, ‘Rose Revolution’, ‘Multiple Pathways to Europeanization’ and ‘the role of the EU as a Soft Power vis-à-vis the other international actors’. It is concluded that the Georgian Europeanization as a single case demonstrates indicators of a selective Europeanization process and without taking the post-Soviet transition problems into account, the Georgian Europeanization, both ideational/normative and institutional levels, could not be analyzed thoroughly.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/27913
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Y. Karadağ, “Georgian Europeanization: an ideational and institutional analysis,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2019.
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