Outline
Title: Georgia’s European Vocation
Georgia’s evolving identity
Historical aspects
Geographical aspects
Cultural aspects
Orthodoxy and Georgian identity
Geopolitics and Georgian identity
Georgia’s European choice: major factors
Susceptibility to liberal-democratic values
Threat-perception
EU enlargement
Geography: a factor?
Georgia’s European choice: major instruments
Foreign and security policy
From PCA to ENP
Getting close to Europe: prospects for institutional integration
EU’s next enlargement: off the agenda?
EU-Georgia rapprochement: divergence of strategic outlooks?
Political conjuncture: a factor of integration?
Georgia’s EU-readiness
Outline
Title: Georgia and EU: Towards Effective Partnership
Overview of current state of relationship
Legal framework: from PCA to ENP
Political dialogue
Trade
Investment projects/ TRACECA
Post-conflict rehabilitation
Identifying problems
Mutual misperception
Lacking will-power
Low capacity of Georgian government
EU government bureaucracy
Policy options analysis
Describe alternatives
Forecast consequences of alternatives
Describe any spillovers and externalities
Assess constraints and political feasibility
Conclusions and policy recommendations
Select criteria or decision rules
Sate conclusions and recommendations
Describe preferred alternative(s)
Outline implementation strategy