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Is Georgia still on your mind, America?
Tedo Japaridze is former Georgian foreign minister, currently political advisor to Bidzina Ivanishvili. A Letter from Washington DC by Tedo Japaridze, former Georgian foreign minister, political...
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In Memoriam of Greg Guroff
Tedo Japaridze is former foreign minister of Georgia, currently political advisor to Bidzina Ivanishvili. For those of us that retain their curiosity, willingness to fail and to learn, age is measured...
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Neither Saakashvili nor Ivanishvili is what the West believes
Tedo Japaridze is a member of parliament representing Georgian Dream and Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs. For many in the West, Mikheil Saakashvili remains the poster child of the Rose...
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What Constitutions are not about and what foreign policy is about
Tedo Japaridze is chairman of parliament’s foreign affairs committee. Polemical reflections on the UNM’s proposal for the constitutionalization of Georgian Foreign Policy Constitutions are binding...
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Why the Bipartisan Foreign Policy Resolution is Significant
Tedo Japaridze is head of parliament’s foreign policy committee representing the Georgian Dream coalition. Adopting a bipartisan resolution on foreign policy in Georgia is significant both in terms of...
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Georgia’s democratic transition
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. I hoped to publish this in an American newspaper during Speaker Usupashvili”s visit to Washington DC, a...
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Foreign Policy or a Battle Cry?
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. What happened in October? The October 2012 parliamentary election gave Georgia a chance for normal...
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NYT picks on an easy target
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. On June 5th, the New York Times was running an article entitled “Taliban Attack Kills 7 Georgian Soldiers...
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Washington and Tbilisi Are Still On The Same Side
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. For eight years, long before the 2008 war, I served as Ambassador of Georgia to Washington. At the time,...
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A lost Georgian letter & Europe’s idealist deficit
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. Recently, I made a discovery of the kind that spices up historians’ books. In my archive, I discovered a...
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From Europe to the Caucasus: hunting time, then and now
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. There is indeed a civilizational cleavage between “Europe” and the South Caucasus. To encapsulate this...
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If NATO delays path to Georgia’s membership, what is the alternative?
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. Alliance’s September summit must offer ‘concrete,’ not ‘token’ help as Georgia faces Russia In the same...
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Alexandre (Alika) Rondeli, in memoriam
Alexander Rondeli Alexandre Rondeli (Alika for most of his Georgian friends and colleagues) was a charming and talented man, a close friend, a consul, a strategic ally, from the category of “usual...
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In Memoriam: Hans-Dietrich Genscher
As Georgia made its first toddler steps in the community of free nations in 1992, Germany was there to help in a period of dramatic institutional, economic, diplomatic, and political transition. And...
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In Memoriam of Sen. John Glenn
Tedo Japaridze Former foreign minister of Georgia, former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in Georgia’s Parliament. Currently political advisor to PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili. It is with great...
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Remembering Bob Walsh: A man who brought big ideas to life in Georgia and...
Bob Walsh The Memorial Service, remembering Bob Walsh, will be held on March 11 in Seattle… So today, indeed, is a sad, tough, rough day because Bob Walsh was my friend for 30 years. Maybe it was for...
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Tbilisi and Brussels: tending to the democracy we have fired up
Ambassador Tedo Japaridze is a former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. Every time someone in Brussels criticizes the Georgian government, a chain reaction...
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Zbigniew Brzezinski will be missed
Brzezinski at the Munich Security Conference, 2014. (www.securityconference.de) To anyone close enough to speak with him in first name terms, he was Zbig. A typical American habit of...
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Helmut Kohl was a great friend of Georgia
Helmut Kohl (wikiwand.com) Helmut Kohl, in hand with Edward Shevardnadze, Michael Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush, convinced Europe to rise to the occasion and believe that history can progress, that...
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How Bush placed Georgia on the map
President George H.W. Bush will be missed not only as a historical leader but also for the style of leadership he brought to Washington: calculated, diligent, often bipartisan, driven by conviction,...
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