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Now that Ukraine’s NATO membership is off the table, the question is whether Georgia’s "Euro-Atlantic integration" will remain in the Constitution of Georgia (setting aside, for a moment, that it should not have been there in the first place).

Kalecki (1943): Political Aspects of Full Employment Reads like a comment on the great reversal in common sense on fiscal policy among German economists

There is something that current workers' strikes in Chiatura (or any other social protest) can learn from the experience of the Rioni Valley Movement. When postsocialist middle-class ideology prevails, social protest is ultimately doomed to fail and lose popular support.

Sorry, but today Georgians rallied for the nationalization of mines.

Our "Germany’s Fiscal Package: Growth Impact, Debt Rule Changes, and Policy Shift" by Nato Balavadze is on Rosa & Roubini. We discuss: changes to the "#debt break" rule, #investment plan for #infrastructure, #Germany’s #growth. Here: content.rosa-roubini-associates.com/germany-mar25-…

Our "#Switzerland’s Economic Outlook and the Bitcoin Referendum Debate" by Nato Balavadze is on Rosa & Roubini. We discuss: #Swiss #macroeconomic developments, #growth and key #industries, National #Bank's monetary easing cycle, #Bitcoin referendum. Here: content.rosa-roubini-associates.com/swiss-mar25/

By rejecting the diplomacy track, the EU-guided Europe makes itself less, not more relevant in international politics. A complete opposite to the Harmel doctrine of the Cold War era - when “Europe” became again a maker of history, not its subject.

Chiatura miners have been protesting for almost a month. In my recent article, I explain what was happening in these small Georgian towns for decades. This will be a thread to sum up the key points🧵 Article link: bit.ly/ChiaturaArticle

Last year the US Embassy in Tbilisi designed a historical initiative in Georgia. This “memory project” was developed as a tool of US political influence and public diplomacy to financially support & reinforce a negative view of the Soviet Union among some academics & NGOs (a 🧵)

If we accept that causality runs from economic development to institutions — rather than the other way around — the implications for development policy change dramatically. It challenges the dominant belief that adopting good institutions — mostly Western-style liberal ones —

My recent publication "Caught in the Middle: Britain Between Washington and Brussels in a Fragmented World" is on Rosa & Roubini. The paper examines Britain’s growing strategic ambiguity in a multipolar world, where it is increasingly sidelined while grappling with limited military

"What empires do to colonies is to-dehistorisize them. Not only by destroying the knowledge of the history there was, but by not creating a new one. During the colonial rule, history of the colonies becomes an annex, a footnote to the history of the metropole, or dissolves into