This issue looks at Georgia in the run-up to parliamentary elections scheduled for 26 October 2024. First, Koba Turmanidze describes the preferences of the Georgian electorate based on representative public opinion polls. Tatia Tavkhelidze then goes on to analyse the key contentious issue in Georgian pre-election politics, the foreign agent law. The remaining three contributions analyse pre-election debates. Lia Tsuladze describes the discoursive strategy of the ruling political elites vis-à-vis the domestic opposition and the European Union. Ekaterine Basilaia analyses the reporting of two major TV broadcasters and, finally, Tamar Qeburia comments on the anti-colonialism discourse in Georgia.

Lia Tsuladze, Nino Abzianidze, Mariam Amashukeli &Lela Javakhishvili

New article published in Journal of European Integration.

Author: Lia Tsuladze

A new article “Euro-optimism Intertwined with Pragmatism: Elite and Popular Discourses on Georgia’s Europeanization through Q Methodology” published in Caucasus Survey special issue.

Lia Tsuladze (Tbilisi State University)

Despite public enthusiasm for closer relations with the West, the ruling party appears ambivalent about the process of European integration and rails against liberal values.