Practices of de-Europeanisation in Georgia: culture strategy 2025 as a case of policyfailing

The article critically examines Georgia’s Culture Strategy 2016–2025 as a case of policy transfer in the context of Europeanisation and its further political dismantling alongside the authoritarian turn in the country. Drawing on policyfailing research within policy mobilities scholarship, it explores the Strategy’s selective implementation amid Georgia’s growing disengagement from the EU political framework. This study contributes to global scholarship on policy circulation and cultural policymaking with both empirical and analytical insights into practices of failing the EU-driven policy as practices of de-Europeanisation integrating the cultural sector into the political debates around Georgia-EU relations.