Nato Balavadze @Natobalavadze

Senior Research Analyst at R&R. Visiting Lecturer in Development Economics. MSc Development Studies at LSE. BSc Econ at Bocconi. Views my own. Tbilisi, Georgia Joined July 2014

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Nato Balavadze @Natobalavadze

2 months ago

While industrial policy is being normalised in the Global North, the same space is not afforded to developing countries. Current climate strategies often sideline the structural needs of the Global South. In this piece, I argue for tailored green transitions that align with each…

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Bryan Gigantino @bryan_gigantino

3 months ago

Georgia needs (and is moving towards) rational multi-vectorism and room to navigate unstable and rapidly shifting regional geopolitical, geoeconomic and security realities - not a political posture begging for suicidal proxification.

Salome Zourabichvili @Zourabichvili_S

3 months ago

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Bryan Gigantino @bryan_gigantino

3 months ago

This should be another indication as to why any analysis of the processes and shifts under way in Georgia need to move beyond a model of “democracy” vs. “authoritarianism” or “west” vs. “east”

POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel

3 months ago

Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.

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Shahram Azhar @ShahramAzhar

4 months ago

Piketty’s fans retort by saying (as mainstreamers always do) that the contribution lies in the “novel data” and cute econometrics. Can we imagine another science in which an “empirical” practitioner fails to MENTION the theorist who discovered the concept?

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Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan

4 months ago

"What empires do to colonies is to-dehistorisize them. Not only by destroying the knowledge of the history there was, but by not creating a new one. During the colonial rule, history of the colonies becomes an annex, a footnote to the history of the metropole, or dissolves into…

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Nato Balavadze @Natobalavadze

5 months ago

My recent publication "Caught in the Middle: Britain Between Washington and Brussels in a Fragmented World" is on @RosaRoubini. The paper examines Britain’s growing strategic ambiguity in a multipolar world, where it is increasingly sidelined while grappling with limited military…

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Nato Balavadze @Natobalavadze

5 months ago

If we accept that causality runs from economic development to institutions — rather than the other way around — the implications for development policy change dramatically. It challenges the dominant belief that adopting good institutions — mostly Western-style liberal ones —…

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Bryan Gigantino @bryan_gigantino

5 months ago

Last year the US Embassy in Tbilisi designed a historical initiative in Georgia. This “memory project” was developed as a tool of US political influence and public diplomacy to financially support & reinforce a negative view of the Soviet Union among some academics & NGOs (a 🧵)