title: NATO Expansion to the East: Georgia’s Way to NATO Membership, Perspectives and Challenges
abstract: The article explores possible NATO enlargement to the East. The study is based on case study analyses and has two objectives:to provide analyses of the dynamics of Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic process, and to show how this process corresponds toexisting experience and practice. Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations, integration path, and domestic and external factors have all been taken into consideration, as have the degree to which Russia can negatively influence the eastward enlargement process, and
journal: Journal of Social Sciences