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Policy briefs, working papers, analyses, reports, and commentary from researchers affiliated with the Black Sea Institute for Geopolitics and Governance.

Policy Brief Democracy and Institutions

SOCIO-ECONOMIC THREAT ASSESSMENT IN EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD AND WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES

D4.1

Mar 2026

A policy-oriented assessment of socio-economic vulnerabilities and threat perceptions across the Eastern neighbourhood and Western Balkans, with implications for governance, resilience, and regional stability.

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Analysis Regional Orders Geopolitics and Strategic Competition

Tbilisi’s Transactional Foreign Policy Leads Georgians Astray

Kornely Kakachia and Bidzina Lebanidze

PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 844 · May 2023

An analysis of Georgia’s increasingly transactional foreign policy and its implications for strategic orientation, democratic development, and relations with Western partners.

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Commentary Geopolitics and Strategic Competition Regional Orders

Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia

Bidzina Lebanidze and Kornely Kakachia

Mar 2026

A commentary on the drivers of Georgia’s increasingly accommodating posture toward Russia and the broader geopolitical logic underpinning this strategic shift.

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Report Security Policy and Defence Democracy and Institutions

GLOBAL AND DIFFUSE RISKS IN THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP COUNTRIES

Potential Impacts on EU Security

Mar 2026

A report examining how diffuse and transnational risks affect Eastern Partnership countries and how these developments may shape the European Union’s wider security environment.

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