ПРОШЛОСТ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЕ АДМИНИСТРАТИВНЕ ПОДЕЛЕ ГРУЗИЈЕ
THE PAST AND THE PROSPECT OF ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION OF GEORGIA

Summary/Abstract: Historically speaking, Georgia never had an opportunity to independently determine the form of country’s administrative division. Due to some factors, including foreign and domestic policies, and socio-economic conditions, it was inevitable to divide the country into certain territorial units; however, Georgia has never been a strictly centralized state. The presented paper discusses the issue of administrative division in legal documents created in independent Georgia. The issue is debated with reference to the first Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopted in 1995, and the second amended Constitution adopted in 2004, and the third amended constitution adopted in 2010. The paper also reviews all the amendments of the Georgian Constitution introduced in the past 20 years,which have not brought any significant changes on the issue of administrative division. The author analyses what may be the best administrative division for Georgia by considering two existing regional conflicts, and underlines the positive and negative aspects of Federalism and Unitarism.

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