title: Borderization in Georgia: Sovereignty Materialized
abstract: This paper shall examine the process of borderization that has been proclaimed as occurring along the Georgian-South Ossetian boundary. This boundary is one that remains largely unrecognized, as the claims of the Georgian state to sovereignty over South Ossetia are accepted by the majority of the international community. The crucial exception to this is Russia, under whose aegis this process of borderization is occurring. The result is the creation of a physical barrier around the territory of S
journal: Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University)