This issue contains the following articles: Georgian Security in the Regional Context By Ghia Nodia singles out five major levels: internal-institutional; internal-territorial; sub-regional; regional; global and contamplates each of them separatley. Georgian Armed And Security Forces: 1995-98 by Vakhtang Maisaia, State Chancellery addresses organisational and staff changes in the Georgian power structures during several last years. October 19 In The Georgian Civil-Military Relations By David Darchiashvili considers an attempt of mutiny near Kutaisi early in the morning on October 19, 1998, led by Akaki Eliava of the MSS (Ministry of State Security). A Mutiny Against The Future Of Georgia By Irakli Aladashvili is another article covering the same theme.

Issue contains also Military Chronicle, which contains Mutiny near Kutaisi, Conflict zones, The Army Building, The Army Life, Visits, Negotiations, Co-operation, Miscellany. The chronicle is based on the information from the Georgian media. The issue followed with the Digest of the Georgian Press.

Published by: the Center for Civil-Military Relations and Security Studies; Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Tbilisi, Georgia; Co-financed by: the European Community, TACIS Democracy Program and the European-Caucasian Economical Consulting. Editorial board: David Darchiashvili, Tamara Pataraia, Guram Dumbadze, Irakli Aladashvili.

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