Georgia: the anatomy of an enduring crisis
The Centre de Recherches Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco) is honored to invite you to the Central Asia-Black Sea Observatory Breakfast entitled: "Georgia: anatomy of an enduring crisis".
Speakers
- Régis GENTÉ, freelance journalist (RFI, Le Figaro, France 24...) and specialist in the former Soviet space, based in Tbilisi since 2003.
Moderator: Sophie HOHMANN, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Inalco, co-director of CREE.
Description of the scientific event
Georgia has experienced repeated crises throughout 2024, the depth of which, and even the risks of serious destabilization, cannot be underestimated. Resistance to the adoption of a law on "foreign agents", contestation of the official results of the October 26 parliamentary elections, protests sparked by the government's decision to freeze the EU integration process. These crises are themselves part of a series of other crises that have been generating each other since at least 2019. What all these crises have in common is that they pit the ruling "Georgian Dream" party of oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili against the bulk of the Georgian population (and its elites in particular). What role did the latter play in the development of these crises? What are the responsibilities of Russia on the one hand, and the United States and Europe on the other? Should we speak of a "civil" confrontation within the Georgian population? Drawing on his field observations gathered over the years, but also on a comparative approach with the dynamics at work in other former Soviet republics, Régis Genté will propose an anatomy of the current crisis and decipher the interplay of its main "players".
The Central Asia - Black Sea Observatory
Recent paradigm shifts have heightened awareness of the need to rethink the spaces that the CREE covers. Three new observatories have emerged from this realization: the Observatoire de l'Europe médiane et orientale contemporaine, the Observatoire de la Russie contemporaine and the Observatoire Asie centrale - Mer noire).
The Observatoire Asie centrale - Mer noire, of which this breakfast will be the first event, is directed by Sophie Hohmann, Catherine Poujol and Alexandre Toumarkine.
It enables us to work on the research and analysis of questions that run through the societies concerned, drawing on different knowledge productions. Its cross-disciplinary delimitation enables geographies and research themes to intersect on political, social, economic and geopolitical issues, with an emphasis on critical reflection.
Generally speaking, the observatories pursue their monitoring and analysis work in the form of "Petits déjeuners" devoted to the political, economic and geopolitical news of the states they cover. Organized at a regular rate of around once every two months, these breakfasts reach a wide audience: academics, experts and business circles.
Organization
- Sophie HOHMANN (CREE, Inalco)