KONFEDERAL BİRLİK: GÜRCÜ-ABHAZ İHTİLAFININ ÇÖZÜMÜ İÇİN YENİ ANAYASAL DÜZEN
CONFEDERAL UNION: A NEW CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER FOR THE RESOLUTION OF THE GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ CONFLICT

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict by taking into account recent developments and comes up with a formula for the resolution of the conflict. According to the study, the moderate atmosphere between the two communities created during the coronavirus pandemic has opened a new era that would provide an opportunity to cease the rooted hostilities and to eliminate the institutionalised doubts. The article argues that a new confederal order taking its shape at the constitutional level would contribute to the cessation of the hostilities and the elimination of the doubts. It is true that Abkhazia would benefit from the confederal order in the short run; however, the order would, in the long run, establish a public realm where the two communities would coexist in a peaceful manner. Collaborationist and integrationist strides made by the Georgian and Abkhaz authorities just after the establishment of the confederal order would gradually cease the hostilities and eliminate the doubts, ultimately resulting in the transformation of regional or national loyalties into confederal allegiances. These allegiances would create an environment of mutual trust stimulating the communities to turn their confederal union into a federation or unitary state. Such unionist and holistic transformation processes have been completed not only by historical confederations, but present confederal organisations are also carrying out these processes. The article scrutinising the present Georgian and Abkhaz perspectives in shaping its confederalist resolution formula recognises the confederalist formula as a worth-examining alternative by considering several current matters, including (i) moderate Georgian and Abkhaz attitudes recorded during the global pandemic, (ii) the willingness of the new Abkhaz administration to cooperate with its Georgian counterpart to develop common policies in many areas, (iii) the current political, financial and military capabilities of the Georgian state and (iv) the demand of the Georgian people to resolve the conflict via peaceful negotiations.

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