Georgia Foreign Policy (1991-2012): A Study on The Foreign Policy of Small States

• Main Authors: HUNG, KUO-CHIN, 洪國晉
• Other Authors: LIU, BI-RONG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tmb7cq

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 政治學系 === 101 === Since Georgia declared independence on April 4, 1991, its geostrategic position – it is an important passageway between Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and is the only state in South Caucasus that has ports along the coast of Black Sea—makes it a hot target of Russian and American foreign policies. All major powers want to win Georgia to their camp. And how did Georgia leverage the new situation to maximize its national interests has therefore become an interesting topic of research. From 1991 to 2012, Georgia went through three Presidents. All of them have different foreign policies. This thesis is attempted to analyze and assess Georgian foreign policies of these three administrations, i.e., Zviad Gamsakhurdia’s anti-Russia foreign policy; Eduard Shevardnadze’s pro-Russia foreign policy in his early years and balanced foreign policy in his later years, and Mikheil Saakashvili’s pro-American foreign policy after the Rose Revolution in 2004. This thesis employed theories of small states foreign policies as analytical framework and tried to provide in interpretation to the 2008 Georgian-Russian war.