Homeland! Language! Faith! | Danube Knowledge

After a disputed election late last year, the ex-Soviet satellite of Georgia was catapulted towards the top of the Western news agenda.

Its dominant political party, Georgian Dream, has traded on a peculiar mix of conservatism, nationalism and populism. If ‘all nations are conservative about different things’, then Georgia is a particularly esoteric blend. But as Calum Nicholson discovers, at the same time, Georgian Dream party trades on a formula that goes back over a century.

In this episode of Danube Knowledge, he sits down with Danube Institute Visiting Fellow Stefano Arroque, to talk over the history of Georgia’s eternal slogan: “Homeland. Language. Faith.”

If you want to read Stefano’s full paper, you can do so at the link here:

https://danubeinstitute.hu/en/research/homeland-language-faith-how-georgia-embraced-traditionalist-conservatism