ABSTRACT
This chapter examines ways in which external economic engagement has affected the effort to build a sustainable state in Georgia. It provides a section on the background to post-conflict state-building in Georgia. Georgia benefited from comparatively impressive flows of economic assistance, particularly since the 'Rose Revolution' in 2003. It should be stressed that rigorous evaluation of the effect of international engagement would require knowing what would have occurred in its absence. The role of international actors in statebuilding after conflict in Georgia has comprised, among other things, rehabilitation, macroeconomic stabilization, reconstruction and infrastructural modernization, support for law and order, capacity building in state institutions, efforts to support displaced persons, and efforts to promote conflict resolution and conflict prevention. Diversity in approaches is accompanied by diversity of actors. Some are national, some regional, and some multilateral. Many major players are linked one way or another to states or groups of states; some are non-governmental.
