Author:Kakhaber Katsitadze

Page number, Format:163, A5

© Open Society -Georgia Foundation, 2001

Short Description:The book was prepared as an auxiliary textbook for master students in social sciences and is divided into thirteen lectures. These are as follows: the term of geopolitical and geostrategic transformation; geostrategic circumstances of “Cold War” era and geopolitical configuration; description of NATO and Warsaw agreement organizations; geostrategic role and configuration of Europe; definition of European military operations theatre in “Cold War” era; the end of the “Cold War” and reasons of the victory of the West; International relations system in post “Cold War” era; new role of Black Sea and Caucasus Region in geopolitical and geostrategical space of Europe; peculiarities of Chinese Second War; new role of NATO and its enlargement; the perspectives of geopolitical and geostrategic transformation; new tendencies to the military policy of leader states; summarizing geopolitical and geostrategic transformation and Georgian political cultures – optimal possibility of neutrality of Georgia.