Jason Katz’s ‘Impeded Development’

Jason Katz’s “Impediments to regional development in the South Caucasus” (http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/228812-impediments-to-regional-development-in-the-south-caucasus), which appeared in “Congress blog” on “The Hill” website, leaves the (informed) reader with the impression that the only impeded development exits in the author’s mind. It leaves the broader reading public with a badly imbalanced, inaccurate, and utterly skewed view of the state of affairs in the South Caucasus. Here are most, though not all, of the flaws in Katz’s arguments. One hopes the clients of the Tool Shed Group (TSG), LLC (where Katz is the principal), a consultancy that advises foreign governments, NGOs, and corporations in the realms of strategic communications, politics, and policy, will reconsider their relationships with the provider of such flawed logic.

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