As the grape harvest season approaches, Georgia, a country that George W. Bush once called a “beacon of liberty” is today holding parliamentary elections that could serve as a litmus test for the country’s democratic development. The small Caucasian country, that after the Rose Revolution in 2003 managed to transform itself from an almost-failed state to a functioning democracy, might pass Samuel Huntington’s “democratic consolidation test”. In 2012, Georgia had the first peaceful democratic transfer of power in its history, and as Huntington tells it, a second transfer is needed for a country to move from being a “fragile” to …read more
Source: The American Interest
