Accepting Alien Rule? State-Building Nationalism in Georgia’s Azeri Borderland

Christofer Berglund

Europe-Asia Studies, 2020, vol. 72, issue 2, 263-285

Abstract: How did ethnic Azeris in the Marneuli, Bolnisi and Dmanisi districts, located inside Georgia but bordering Azerbaijan, react to the reorganisation of political space along national lines after the Soviet Union’s dissolution? ‘Beached’ in foreign states bent on nationalising their domains, minorities throughout Eurasia sometimes rejected and sometimes accepted their alien rulers. This essay examines reactions to this predicament among Georgia’s Azeris. Drawing on elite interviews and data from a matched-guise experiment, it concludes that locals have come to accept their host state after its state-building nationalism took an inclusive turn and the distinction between aliens and natives faded.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1679091

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