abstract: The West’s stern condemnation of the Georgian Dream’s brutal crackdown on the peaceful demonstrators, imposition of unprecedented, albeit uncoordinated and still weak sanctions on the Georgian Dream leaders, and American financial sanctions against Bidzina Ivanishvili put Georgia in front of a damaging international isolation. Georgia’s foreign and security policy is shattering as a result, with the regime’s goals transforming from fulfilling national security interests into legitimacy-fishing. 
journal: GEOpolitics