{"id":10368,"date":"2022-02-19T18:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprc.ge\/?post_type=news_p_type&#038;p=10368"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:17:29","slug":"stanford-university-center-for-democracy-development-and-rule-of-law-draper-hills-fellows-program-georgian-alumni-in-support-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"news_p_type","link":"https:\/\/eprc.ge\/en\/news\/stanford-university-center-for-democracy-development-and-rule-of-law-draper-hills-fellows-program-georgian-alumni-in-support-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford University, Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law Draper Hills Fellows Program Georgian Alumni in Support of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wider Black Sea has long been the region for Russia\u2019s policy of establishing its sphere of influence. Supporting and promoting authoritarianism in general has been one of the pillars of Putin\u2019s strategy. This strategy aims not only to squeeze out liberal democracy from the geopolitical areas of interest but also to prove that democracy and solidarity among democracies is not working.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia still stand out as the missing link in Russian strategic puzzle. With ups and downs, publics in these countries have been extremely consistent with their Euro-Atlantic aspirations and they have been acting as strong western allies at the frontiers of democracy. Democratic development and modernization efforts define their geopolitical identity as the Eastern European democracies in the Black Sea region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This process of statecraft under the Russian gunpoint has been quite painful. Russian military <strong><b>land grab <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 occupation and annexation of sovereign territories was not enough to derail Ukraine and Georgia from their western course. With hybrid wars launched Russia tries to overtly and covertly interfere in the domestic affairs of these countries by using corruption as the lubricant for the oligarchic networks of Russian enablers. These undermines countries\u2019 resilience against Russian hybrid tactics and makes them an easy prey for Russian predatory policies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a regional context, after the occupation and recognition of Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, annexation of Crimea, Russian influence has become more omnipresent. Tilting military balance in favor of Russia gives it an ability to dictate the new geopolitical equivalent of military Anti Access \/ Area Denial strategy directed against the West by squeezing out democracy from the region. By increasing the military presence in majority of non-NATO countries, Russia has started pushing the new forceful geopolitical integration process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At present Russia is attempting to mimic the 2008 Georgia and the 2014 Ukraine invasion playbook on a much greater scale &#8211; military invasion with prefabricated facts and narratives due to minimal cost it has paid before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For Putin\u2019s strategy Ukraine is the key country in many respects. That is why Russia amassed huge military assets and manpower at its borders, that is why Ukraine\u2019s fight is our common fight and that is why <strong><b>today Ukraine is more than Ukraine!<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hence, we, the Georgian Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program alumni stand in solidarity with Ukraine; <strong><b>Call on<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0our strategic allies &#8211; NATO, EU and each individual member states to stand firm in defense of our common values and principles\u00a0and the rules based international order; <strong><b>And request<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0to proactively push for the fulfilment of the idea of Europe Whole and Free and \u00a0at Peace by accelerating Ukraine\u2019s and Georgia\u2019s NATO membership.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, a clear Western policy of supporting and encouraging systemic security, economic, democracy assistance as well as investments in the strategic infrastructure in the Black Sea region, would reinforce strategic connectivity among countries and nations sharing the same values and will positively affect regional dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With these immediate efforts, besides securing the significant strategic foothold for the west and restraining Russian revisionism, this could mark the beginning of the next wave of democratization and offensive against authoritarianism globally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nino Evgenidze \u2013 CDDRL Fellow 2013<\/p>\n<p>Batu Kutelia \u2013 CDDRL Fellow 2021<\/p>\n<p>Irakli Porchkidze \u2013 CDDRL Fellow 2014<\/p>\n<p>Eka Gigauri \u2013 CDDRL Fellow, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Nino Chichua \u2013 CDDRL Fellow 2019<\/p>\n<p>George Kadagidze &#8211; CDDRL Fellow 2016<\/p>\n<p>Nata Tsnoriashvili, CDDRL Fellow 2012<\/p>\n<p>Giorgi Gogia &#8211; CDDRL Fellow 2015<\/p>\n<p>Nino Esakia \u2013 CDDRL Fellow 2018<\/p>\n<p>Givi Chanukvadze \u2013 CDDRL Fellow 2010<\/p>\n<p>Eka Kemularia \u2013 CDDRL Fellow 2008<\/p>\n<p>David Abesadze \u2013 CDDRL Fellow 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"malwarebytes-root\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10379,"template":"","websites":[19],"news_categories":[272],"class_list":["post-10368","news_p_type","type-news_p_type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","websites-eprc","news_categories-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stanford University, Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law Draper Hills Fellows Program Georgian Alumni in Support of Ukraine &bull; EPRC.ge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eprc.ge\/en\/news\/stanford-university-center-for-democracy-development-and-rule-of-law-draper-hills-fellows-program-georgian-alumni-in-support-of-ukraine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stanford University, Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law Draper Hills Fellows Program Georgian Alumni in Support of Ukraine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wider Black Sea has long been the region for Russia\u2019s policy of establishing its sphere of influence. 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