Historic and New Silk Road and perspectives for European Integration of Georgia By: Nika Chitadze Director of the Center for International Studies Professor of the International Black Sea University President of the George C. Marshall Center Alumni Union, Georgia – International and Security Research Center Introduction Georgia is a small country on the crossroads of Europe and Asia. At the same time, together with the economic benefits for the country, which had and has its important geopolitical place between different civilizations, there were frequent confrontations for the gaining control over Georgia and Caucasus Region due to the fact, that modern territory of Georgia was located on one of the branch of the Great Silk Road. Historic Silk Road was functioning since 8-7-th Centuries B.C. till the middle of 15-th Century. After...