Lincoln Mitchell tracks the course of events leading up to the recent revolution in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, analyzes the contributing factors, and explores the role of the United States both in contributing to the revolution and in Georgia's failure to live up to its democratic promise.

Uncertain Democracy
U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution

Lincoln A. Mitchell

2008 | 192 pages | Cloth $49.95
Political Science
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Table of Contents

Preface	
1. Georgia and the Democracy Promotion Project
2. Illusions of Democracy
3. The Accidental Revolution
4. How Democratic Was the Rose Revolution?
5. Governance by Adrenaline
6. The U.S. Role in the Rose Revolution
7. Georgia and the United States After the Revolution
8. Georgia and the Fading of the Color Revolutions
Postscript: War with Russia and Georgia's Future

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments