Cover Osteuropa 4/2025

In Osteuropa 4/2025

Fragmented and Polarized
Insights into Georgian Society

Ana Kirvalidze


Deutsche Fassung

Abstract

Georgian society is marked by growing polarisation. Social cohesion is weak. Only a few people are involved in community service. Many lack a basic sense of civic responsibility. Nostalgia, feelings of powerlessness, and fatal-ism are widespread. Only among the younger generation is there a growing understanding that all citizens bear responsibility for the situation in their community and in the country itself.

(Osteuropa 4/2025, pp. 167–174)