Discussion of Georgia and Relations with Russia

After Vladimir Bukovsky’s outstanding presentation and an afternoon excursion to the Livadia Palace at Yalta, where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin divided up the world and handed much of Europe over to Stalin, the Cato.ru Summer School students have organized a very thoughtful and deep discussion of policies in and with regard to Georgia. Students from Georgia, Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine are taking part. Several liberal principles for evaluating interstate relations (including individual [human] rights, rights of national self determination, and limitationss of state jurisdiction and power to defined territories) were set out as the foundation for small group discussions, the results of which will then be presented to the wider summer school. It’s a most important topic and I’m looking forward to a most enlightening discussion.