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2008.
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Georgia's Rose Revolution promised sweeping economic and political reforms, designed in part to enhance the livelihoods of ethnic and religious minority populations. The Rose events, however, occurred concomitantly with a surge in ethnic unrest. This article examines this paradox, arguing that the three major policy goals of the Saakashvili regime: the devolution of power to minorities, anti-corruption reform and state capacity building, have resulted in contradictory policy outcomes that have disproportionately hurt ethnic and religious minority enclaves.
* Thanks to APSA and ASN panel discussants Mark Beissinger and Stephen Jones and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. Many thanks to Alexander Rondeli and Temuri Yakobashvili at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies in Tbilisi, as well as Eka Metreveli, Nana Papiashvili, Salome Tsereteli, Irakli Vacharadze, and Jeremy Teigen. Research was conducted with monetary support from the Fulbright Program and the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York. All errors are my own.
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