• Corruption and trafficking: monitoring and prevention
  By the Center for the Study of Democracy. The paper analyzes the phenomenon of illicit trafficking growth, as one of the most important sources of local "gray economy" throughout the 90ies, and and to identify adequate monitoring and counteraction measures to fight with it
  with publication weurope workinggroups
• Georgia and the Caucasus: search for the principles for the regional security concept
  By Irakli Mchedlishvili. The article analyses formation of political orientations in the Caucasus, features attempts to shape the Caucasian regional and national security systems, stresses the great importance of co-operation between the Caucasian nations and the role of Russia, Turkey and Iran in the regional security system, and suggests principles of relations between the Caucasus and non-regional countries
  with publication weurope workinggroups
• The security of the Caspian Sea region
  by Chufrin Gennady The paper examines Georgia's recent strategic choices and analyses Georgia's behavior as a small state, its relations with its powerful neighbor, Russia, and the impact of regional oil politics
  with publication weurope workinggroups
• Transportation, smuggling and organized crime
  By the Center for the Study of Democracy. The report describes a range of companies and individuals involved in organized crime groups whose main business is the trafficking of consumer goods. It presents new data on oil and oil products smuggling and examines new the role of duty-free shops and their involvement in illicit cigarettes imports.
  with publication weurope workinggroups
• Georgia: foreign policy and national security priorities
  By Alexander Rondeli. As a result of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, 14 independent, small states have emerged. All are trying to develop democratic societies and market economies. All are trying to find their place and role in teh international political and economic systems.Georgia is one of the three small states in teh South Caucasus, which became independent in 1991 as a result of the Soviet break-up. The begining of Georgia's sovereign existence could be characterised as the most disastrous of all the post-Soviet states. The biggest hindrance to Georgia's prospects of developing into a modern, European-type state is its fragile statehood and internal political weakness
  with publication weurope workinggroups

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