Book contents
- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty
- 2 Submission, Resistance, and War
- 3 Subnational Politics and Sovereignty in Post-Soviet Georgia
- 4 Mass Politics and the Surrender of Sovereignty
- 5 European Informal Empire in China, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt
- 6 Cross-National Variation in Sovereignty and Hierarchy
- 7 Hierarchy, Political Order, and Great Power Politics
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Subnational Politics and Sovereignty in Post-Soviet Georgia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2020
- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty
- 2 Submission, Resistance, and War
- 3 Subnational Politics and Sovereignty in Post-Soviet Georgia
- 4 Mass Politics and the Surrender of Sovereignty
- 5 European Informal Empire in China, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt
- 6 Cross-National Variation in Sovereignty and Hierarchy
- 7 Hierarchy, Political Order, and Great Power Politics
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Exploiting subnational variation in four Georgian regions — Adjara, Abkahzia, Javakheti, and Kvemo-Kartli — this chapter demonstrates how nonstate actors and local powerbrokers can act as a constraint on the central government and thus increase the level of external hierarchy. The chapter also shows that local actors are influenced by similar considerations to the central government. Higher levels of contestation and rent-seeking lead local elites and ethnic political entrepreneurs to support external control over sovereignty. This chapter not only contributes to the literature on international hierarchy but also shows how external actors may influence state-building and interethnic political relationships.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020