Abstract
The main goal of this chapter is to investigate the chief characteristics of post-communist civil society in the Caucasus and to examine the dynamics of its development. The first part of the chapter describes the present-day NGO sector and provides a concise analysis of its development processes. It also presents the weaknesses of the formal civil society by qualitatively and quantitatively investigating the membership in CSOs, their distribution, organisational design, popular trust towards NGOs and their relations with the state and donors. The second part of the chapter provides a detailed analysis of the informal civil society — informal networks and the indigenous social capital. It analyses the structure and the composition of networks. It also examines the strength and the weaknesses of the informal civil society.
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