The post-war European political order rested on a fragile yet powerful social contract: economic security in exchange for democratic stability. Sustained public investment in education, healthcare, and social insurance led to the expansion of a broad and confident middle class. Strong labor unions, with genuine bargaining power, reinforced this settlement by supporting social-democratic parties and defending workers’ rights. They functioned not merely as political actors, but

Our school, The Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy in Tbilisi, is characterised by different, original teaching methods compared to other schools in the region. In class, we use the harkness table, around which we build a discussion-based lesson, or we have hands-on experience in science subjects such as physics, chemistry, etc. However, these methods were not just made up, rather they reflect existing teaching practices in the USA, where education is of high standard an