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Bolkvadze

Ketevan Bolkvadze

Associate Professor | Universitetslektor

Bolkvadze

Sons of the Soil or Servants of the Empire? Profiling the Guardians of Separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Author

  • Christofer Berglund
  • Ketevan Bolkvadze

Summary, in English

Who are the guardians of separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? These de facto states can be seen as self-determination movements or as outgrowths of Russian imperialism. We arbitrate between these competing scripts using a dataset that profiles officials in charge of high politics decision-making inside Georgia’s separatist entities from 1992 through 2020 (N=608). We find that most are sons of the soil, though Abkhazia’s guardians are more multicultural than South Ossetia’s. Russian emissaries seized influential posts inside the self-declared republics after 2003 and, since then, sit in on Security Council meetings, thus rendering them incapable of autonomous decision-making.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Pages

37-48

Publication/Series

Problems of Post-Communism

Volume

71

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

M. E. Sharpe

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1075-8216