Russian-Armenian Relations: Affection or Pragmatism?
Russia holds a special place in Armenian foreign and security policy, just as Armenia plays a unique role in Moscow’s regional Caucasus strategy. This memo analyzes the current state of…
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Russian-Azerbaijani Military Cooperation: A New or Old Trick?
Since June, there has been a dramatic increase in media coverage on the situation around the Karabakh conflict. This has been caused primarily by information about the beginning of fulfillment…
Russia’s Recent Caucasus Military Maneuvers: Tempest in a Teapot or Purposeful Trend?
There has been a certain uptick of information in the Russian and western media about recent Russian military activities in the North and South Caucasus. Russia’s air force, Black Sea…
The Politics of Foreign Intrigue
The South Caucasus has inherited deeply ingrained historical narratives of being a pawn in games of geopolitical intrigue, from the Persian-Russian wars of the early 19th century, to the region’s…
Police Reform and Corruption in Georgia, Armenia, and Nagorno-Karabakh
This memo seeks to explain the outcomes of anti-corruption policies in Georgia, Armenia, and the de facto republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. In particular, I ask how Georgia could rapidly implement successful…
Domestic Dimensions of Armenia’s Foreign Policy: The Karabakh Conflict and Armenia-Turkey Relations
It is widely believed that foreign policy is an extension of domestic policy. But the opposite is also true: domestic policy can stem from foreign policy. This memo explores the…
Violence, Politics, and Ethnicity in the “Russian Riviera”
The Krasnodar region is a wealthy province in southern Russia with a population of over five million. Located on the Black Sea coast, it borders Ukraine, Georgia (the breakaway region…
Breaking the Nation’s Taboo: Meds Yeghern and Turkish Intellectuals
On December 12, 2008, a group of Turkish intellectuals launched an internet campaign to apologize for the World War I-era slaughter of Armenians in Turkey. Significantly, the “apology campaign” did…
What’s In Store For Color Revolutions? Managing a New Rise of Discontent in a Time of Crisis
The angry and hopeless demonstrations in the streets of Tehran last June did not resemble the enthusiastic “happenings” on Kyiv’s maidan (main square) in November 2004. However, successive eruptions of…
The Making of a De Facto State: Warlords and Militarized Society in Nagorno-Karabakh
“Warlordism” is sometimes seen as a self-repairing strategy for weak states. This memo assesses the rise of the twin phenomena of warlordism and militarism in the de facto state of…