
Dr. Dieter Boden, retired ambassador; studied Slavic studies and political sciences in Münster and Hamburg; joined the Federal Foreign Office in 1968. He held various posts, including the German Embassies in Moscow and Rome. He was appointed ambassador to the OSCE in Vienna, Special Envoy to the UN Secretary-General in Georgia, Head of the OSCE Mission to Tbilisi.
This article is a book review of Philipp Ammon, Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation. Die Wurzeln des Konflikts vom 18. Jh. bis 1924, Frankfurt/M 2020. This is the fascinating…