Preface In today’s world, human capital, understood as the collective knowledge, skills, and experience of a country’s population, has become the most valuable resource and a strategic asset that confers relative advantage for transitional democracies and developing economies. Georgia, which seeks integration into the Euro-Atlantic space, faces a significant challenge: pervasive adverse selection and the exodus of talented, highly qualified, motivated, industrious, and educat

Preface Reflex control is one of the most interesting, yet complex, concepts in the study of strategic communication, psychological warfare, and information operations. According to Soviet military theory during the Cold War, it was conceived as a means of manipulating the perception and reasoning of an adversary in order to force the other side to voluntarily make a choice favorable to the manipulator. Unlike coercion, which is based on deceptive pressure or falseness, refle

“Tourism is the only industry that invites the world to your home and pays you for the privilege.”  Between Asia and Europe, where...