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another round of reprisals that would set Georgia back politically and indeed economically, as investors would be scared off.
It is therefore very likely that the anger being expressed on the streets of Tbilisi will not translate into meaningful change. This may be disheartening for some but it shows us that at the moment, the events in Tbilisi are highlighting both dissatisfaction with the GD government as well
as the power of the GD/UNM duopoly which is
the political anchor of a status quo that works for elites of both parties but does little to address the needs and demands of the Georgian people.
Dr. Lincoln Mitchell is an Associate Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of
War and Peace Studies at Columbia University,
and previously a 2017-18 EDSN fellow. Mitchell is the author of The Democracy Promotion Paradox (2016), The Color Revolutions (2012), and Uncertain Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution (2008). EDSN is an international research fellowship project of the Center of Social Sciences, Tbilisi and made possible with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy.