Revaz Gachechiladze

• Managing Director at Tbilisi State University

This article discusses geopolitics in the South Caucasus, situated between the Black and Caspian Seas on the edge of Europe and Asia. Three independent states, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, emerged here in 1991. The region may likely become economically and politically more important to the world in the twenty-first century.

The emergence of the Newly Independent States at the end of 1991, although due to the coincidence of historical events, was a logical outcome of the political crisis within the USSR. The nations had been actively formed during the Soviet period and they considered their homeland the territory which bore the name of a definite nationality. Since all...

While the capital city and its surrounding territory often forms the most important nodal region in any country, this very nodality may give rise to social problems. In the case of the Tbilisi metropolitan region, Georgia, U.S.S.R., social development has been conditioned by such factors as the Soviet centralized economic management system, adminis...

Spatial differences in the material welfare of the population of the Georgian SSR are evaluated on the basis of five per capita indices (monetary income, total savings, number of motor vehicles, retail trade turnover, and provision of basic services) for 61 administrative units of varying type, including ASSRs, rayons, and cities under union republ...

This article examines the economic development of three distinctive republics (Georgian S.S.R., Armenian S.S.R., Azerbaydzhan S.S.R.) on the periphery of the U.S.S.R. Planned as three republican territorial production complexes, they have recently undergone considerable industrialization with growing integration of their economies. Increasingly urb...