In the Caucasus, There Is a Peace Agreement but Not Peace

(Jacobin) Last fall, Armenia was devastated by a six-week war with its neighbor Azerbaijan, ending in the deployment of Russian peacekeepers across the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh. Yet the “peace agreement” has…

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The Yerevan Protests in 2021: a Sociological Eye

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Reportedly, Armenia is in the midst of a military coup, or is it a counter-coup? What does sociological fieldwork from the city streets tell us? Such methodology…

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Looking to 2021: A Conversation with Georgi Derluguian

(CivilNet) Political commentator Eric Hacopian wraps up the year of 2020 with Georgi Derluguian, historical sociologist and professor of the New York University at Abu Dhabi. Read More © CivilNet

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Postmodernity (Derluguian); Russian “Federalism” (Makarychev, Yatsyk); Pluralism without Democracy (Makarychev); Russia’s Post-Soviet Ideological Terrain (Wengle, Monet, Olimpieva)

(Slavic Review) Contents: CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: 1968 Judit Bodnár: Making a Long Story Longer: Eastern Europe and 1968 as a Global Moment, Fifty Years Later Anna Szemere: Let’s Turn Hegel from His…

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The Armenian Anomaly [VIDEO]

Georgi Derluguian’s Keynote address, “The Armenian Anomaly,” is now available online. Derluguian gave the presentation at the PONARS Eurasia workshop, “Building States and Nations in Turbulent Contexts,” held in Yerevan on November 8-9, 2018, in…

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Unpacking Armenian Studies – Dr. Georgi Derluguian [AUDIO]

(Soundcloud) Georgi Derluguian, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi, joins Salpi Ghazarian, Director, USC Institute of Armenian Studies, for a conversation about Armenian Studies,…

Enter Nikol Pashinyan: The Causes and Future Prospects of the 2018 Armenian Revolution

(PONARS Policy Memo) Last spring, a surging wave of protests ended a regime of post-Soviet restoration in Armenia. A near-universal rejection of the old regime brought into the streets of…

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On 25 years of postmodernity in the South Caucasus

(oDR) The village of Sadakhlo sits at the intersection of borders between Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Lauded in Soviet times as the “point of friendship”, this place now seems more…

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Leaderless Protest in Armenia

The dramatic protest mobilization in Armenia last week illustrates how much any social movement is an emotional rollercoaster. The protest was triggered by a 17 percent increase in electricity rates.…

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Don’t Trample on my Strawberries! The Micro-Sociology of the Geopolitics in Lugansk

What is happening in Kyiv is fascinating but fairly understandable and densely covered. The situation in Lugansk and Donetsk, on the other hand, is less clear. I decided to do…

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