Review & Outlook

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Conflict Mythology and Azerbaijan — Emil Sanamyan, September 17, 1997
Armenia’s Foreign Relations — Hratch Tchilingirian, October 6, 1997
The Resurgence of Inflation in Armenia? — King Banaian, October 22, 1997
Spiralling towards a regional catastrophe — Onnik Krikorian, November 17, 1997
Armenia: Political Prospects For 1998 — Hratch Tchilingirian, December 23, 1997
Armenia faces its first major post-Soviet leadership change — Hratch Tchilingirian, February 6, 1998
Explaining Armenia: An insider’s view — Gevork Ter-Gabrielian, February 7, 1998
The Thirty Year Recovery, or How to Accelerate Armenia’s Economy — King Banaian, March 9, 1998
On The Eve Of The Crucial Choice — Emil Sanamyan, March 12, 1998
Presidential Elections in Armenia: Candidates and Issues — Hratch Tchilingirian, March 13, 1998
Reuters’ Deeply Biased Coverage of Armenian Elections — Hratch Tchilingirian, April 2, 1998
Prelude To Succession Struggle In Azerbaijan — Emil Sanamyan, April 17, 1998
Turkey: The War Against Democracy — Haluk Gerger, May 14, 1998
Global Strategies Shape Regional Developments — Hratch Tchilingirian, August 14, 1998
What are the differences between “Haigagan Hartz” and “Hay Tahd?” — Khachig Tololyan, September 21, 1998
A Calculated Risk? — Onnik Krikorian, November 16, 1998
A March to Freedom — Onnik Krikorian, November 23, 1998
The Kurdish National Liberation Movement — Onnik Krikorian, November 30, 1998
Turkey’s True Colors — P. D. Spyropoulos, December 1, 1998
Rekindling the Fire? The Kurdish National Liberation Movement — Onnik Krikorian, February 26, 1999
Armenia: Transition, Development and Identity — Onnik Krikorian, June 17, 1999
Election of Catholicos Armenia 1999 — MTh. Rev. Michael Westh, October 25, 1999
Election of Catholicos Armenia 1999 - Between the First and the Second Day — MTh. Rev. Michael Westh, October 27, 1999
Murder In Parliament: Who? Why? And What Next? — Ara Sanjian, November 1, 1999
No Calm After the Storm — Onnik Krikorian, December 18, 1999
Night of the Long Knives — Onnik Krikorian, January 24, 2000
“Diplomatic Rotation” Or Elimination? — Groong Research & Analysis Group, April 21, 2000
Politics of Transition in Armenia and Prospects of a Peace Deal with Azerbaijan — Levon Zourabian, April 29, 2000
On Armenian State Television Coverage — Ara Sanjian, July 5, 2000
Armenians And The 2000 Parliamentary Elections In Lebanon — Ara Sanjian, September 7, 2000
Armenia economic policy issues as a transition country — Vartan Marashlian, September 19, 2000
Efforts for Genocide Recognition Intensify — Groong Research & Analysis Group, November 10, 2000
Javakhk: Stability Through Autonomy — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, March 26, 2001
The Struggle For Genocide Recognition: The Next Steps — Groong Research & Analysis Group, April 15, 2001
Directions in U.S. Foreign Policy: Engaging Iran — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, April 30, 2001
On the eve of the Karabakh Talks in Geneva — Groong Research & Analysis Group, May 15, 2001
The Nagorno Karabagh Conflict: Why Precipitated Optimism has Backfired — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, June 1, 2001
Polish-Jewish Relations and the Armenian Genocide — Jonathan Eric Lewis, July 30, 2001
Interview with TARC’s Van Krikorian and Andranik Migranian — Groong Research & Analysis Group, August 4, 2001
The Dangers of Privatizing Armenian Foreign Policy — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, August 31, 2001
A Nation and a World at Unrest — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, September 24, 2001
Georgia Faces New Regional Realities — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, October 8, 2001
Fighting in Georgia Redraws Twisted Alliances — Groong Research & Analysis Group, December 1, 2001
Armenia and the War on Terrorism: Delicate Times Ahead — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, January 16, 2002
Role of the Diasporas in Transition Economies: Lessons from Armenia — Lev M. Freinkman, January 28, 2002
The Second Armenia-Diaspora Conference (May 27-28, 2002) — Groong Research & Analysis Group, June 7, 2002
Oil and Gas Resources of Armenia — Tim Papworth, June 24, 2002
Old Wine in New Bottle? — Groong Research & Analysis Group, July 24, 2002
One Year After 9/11: Where The Real Divide Of `Us And Them’ Stands — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, September 11, 2002
Interview with Tony Halpin and John Hughes — Groong Research & Analysis Group, November 14, 2002
Interview with Salpi Ghazarian — Groong Research & Analysis Group, November 15, 2002
An Examination of Laws Affecting Lake Sevan — The Greens Union of Armenia, January 7, 2003
Electoral Dynamics in Armenia: Runoff Looks Inevitable Now — Groong Staff, February 17, 2003
Roots of Democratic Deficiency — Razmik Shirinian, March 13, 2003
Multilateralism: The Basis of A New World Order — His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia, March 25, 2003
The Armenian Diaspora: In search for a New Outlook — Asbed Kotchikian, July 1, 2003
Neither Friends Nor Enemies: Armenian-Georgian Relations — Asbed Kotchikian, July 7, 2003
The Power Of Small (Georgia) Over Smaller (Armenia) — Asbed Kotchikian, July 15, 2003
Armenian Foreign Policy: Between State and Nation — Asbed Kotchikian, August 12, 2003
Academia And National Interest: Can They Be Reconciled? — Asbed Kotchikian, September 1, 2003
Election Turmoil and Post-Election Trauma in Georgia — Asbed Kotchikian, November 24, 2003
Georgia in Transition: Implications for Armenia and Javakhk — Khatchik Der Ghoukassian, Richard Giragosian, January 22, 2004
Armenian Soldiers Not Safe: Neither At Home Nor Abroad — Asbed Kotchikian, March 17, 2004
Politics in Armenia: A Thorny `Revolution’ in The Making? — Asbed Kotchikian, April 5, 2004
Digging Deep in Trenches: The Opposition in Armenia Faces Stalemate — Groong Research & Analysis Group, May 13, 2004
The Rise and Fall of Samvel Babayan — ANN/Groong, October 6, 2004
Dual Citizenship - Or Whether The Armenian Government Is Serious About Reforms — Njdeh Melkonian, March 31, 2005
Authoritarian Democracy — Tugrul Keskingoren, June 14, 2005
New Forest Code and Related Legislation — Jeffrey Tufenkian, September 12, 2005
The State of Business and Economics Education in Armenia — David Joulfaian, December 5, 2005
Armenia questions the benefits of strategic alliance with Russia — Grigor Hakobyan, January 28, 2006
Armenia and Conventions to Avoid Double Taxation — Shushanik Hakobyan, David Joulfaian, January 31, 2006
Foreign Peacekeepers in NK: Source For Stability Or Concern? — Grigor Hakobyan, March 1, 2006
The Balance of Power in South Caucasus and Probability of Resumption of War in Karabakh — Grigor Hakobyan, Sergey Minasian, April 11, 2006
West of Eden — Asbed Kotchikian, May 17, 2006
Hrant Dink, The Martyr For Many Causes — Asbed Kotchikian, Asbed Bedrossian, February 1, 2007
Implications Of Parliamentary Election’s Results In Armenia — Grigor Hakobyan, June 7, 2007
Levon Ter-Petrossian: A Blast From The Past Or A Mild Form Of Nostalgia? — Asbed Kotchikian, November 1, 2007
Former President of Armenia Announces his Candidacy for Presidential Elections in 2008 — Grigor Hakobyan, November 21, 2007
Change On The Horizon? Armenia(ns) In Obama’s World — Asbed Kotchikian, December 29, 2008
Nothing Personal: Turkey’s Top Ten — Raffi K. Hovannisian, March 6, 2009
Déjà Vu: Armenians and The 2009 Parliamentary Elections in Lebanon — Ara Sanjian, June 29, 2009
Trilogies: Turkey, Armenia, And The Terrible Truth. Or, Erdogan, Obama, and December 7 — Raffi K. Hovannisian, December 2, 2009
Quid Pro Quo? Turkey Between Ethics And Politics: Put It All On The Table — Raffi K. Hovannisian, December 16, 2009
No You Can’t: Obama’s Test And Turkey’s Time — Raffi K. Hovannisian, March 23, 2010
Armenia-Diaspora Relations: 20 Years since Independence — Raffi K. Hovannisian, March 30, 2010
Armenia’s Stand: Justice At Home, Justice Abroad — Raffi K. Hovannisian, April 6, 2010
Syria’s Broken Spring: A Damascus Report — Vicken Cheterian, June 23, 2011
Campaign 2012: A Look Through The Armenian-American Lens — Taniel Shant Koushakjian, January 8, 2012
Artsakh: Analysis of the Four Day War — Grigor Hakobyan, April 11, 2016
Failed Azerbaijani Blitzkrieg: Causes, Consequences & Implications — Grigor Hakobyan, May 9, 2016
Guns of July: Events that Shook the Armenian World to its Core — Grigor Hakobyan, August 8, 2016
Analysis of Armenian Security and Conventional Warfare in the 21st Century — Grigor Hakobyan, October 5, 2016
Armenia: Priorities for the Next Sixteen Years — Grigor Hakobyan, November 6, 2016
Armenia: The Year in Review, and Outlook for 2017 — Grigor Hakobyan, December 25, 2016
In Pursuit of Armenian National Interests — Grigor Hakobyan, January 9, 2017
In Anticipation of Another War — Grigor Hakobyan, February 21, 2017
The New Geopolitical Map of The Near East — Grigor Hakobyan, June 26, 2017
It is Time to End Aliyev’s Regime — Grigor Hakobyan, July 7, 2017
Azerbaijani Hubris and the Coming End of Aliyev’s Regime — Grigor Hakobyan, July 29, 2017
In Defense of Closing AGBU Manoukian High School — William Bairamian, November 21, 2019
The Coming Regional Conflict and the Strategic Importance of Nakhijevan — Grigor Hakobyan, May 26, 2020
The Armenian-Turkish War — Grigor Hakobyan, October 10, 2020
How Armenia Can Come Out of this Crisis Stronger Than Ever — Kevork Kalayjian, January 10, 2021

Quid Pro Quo? Turkey Between Ethics And Politics: Put It All On The Table

QUID PRO QUO? TURKEY BETWEEN ETHICS AND POLITICS: PUT IT ALL ON THE TABLE YEREVAN, ARMENIA In Washington, Brussels, Moscow and elsewhere, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Erdogan, Foreign Minister Davutoglu and others have long advocated combining onto one political agenda their country’s normalization of relations with Armenia and the resolution of Mountainous Karabagh’s conflict with Azerbaijan. I agree. Newly-independent Armenia’s ostensibly mature policy–which I supported as the nation’s first foreign affairs minister–of seeking establishment of diplomatic relations without the positing of any preconditions can today, 18 years into the game, be pronounced dead on arrival....

Trilogies: Turkey, Armenia, And The Terrible Truth. Or, Erdogan, Obama, and December 7

YEREVAN, ARMENIA Turkey has always had its share of decent folks. One close example is the righteous family who, during the great genocide and national dispossession of 1915, risked its own to save my grandmother Khengeni from certain death in the coastal town of Ordu. The stories of thousands like them have not been told because of the Turkish state’s official dialectic of denial. Apart from the remnant 50,000 of the established Armenian community, at least two million people in today’s Turkey draw lineage from an Armenian grandparent who was orphaned, stolen or saved–but in all cases turkified–in the killing fields of Ottoman-occupied historic Armenia....

Déjà Vu: Armenians and The 2009 Parliamentary Elections in Lebanon

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN I will start with a story which I have heard a number of times over the years from some of the people directly involved in it. It reportedly occurred in Lebanon in the late 1950s. A young Armenian female schoolteacher had a suitor, the elder brother of one of her students. Encouraged by the favorable comments the younger sister had repeatedly made at home about her schoolteacher, the family had concluded that she might end up being a suitable mate for their elder son....

Nothing Personal: Turkey's Top Ten

YEREVAN, ARMENIA That an Armenian repatriate, American-born into a legacy of remembrance inherited from a line of survivors of genocide nearly a century ago, feels compelled to entitle his thoughts with a focus on Turkey– and not Armenia– reveals a larger problem, a gaping wound, and an imperative for closure long overdue on both sides of history’s tragic divide. The new Armenia, independent of its longstanding statelessness since 1991, is my everyday life, as are the yearnings of my fellow citizens for their daily dignity, true democracy, the rule of law, and an empowering end to sham elections and the corruption, arrogance and unaccountability of power....

Change On The Horizon? Armenia(ns) In Obama's World

In Oliver Stone’s movie ‘Nixon’, when the title character is faced with a group of young anti-war protestors in the middle of the night in front of the Lincoln memorial and questioned as to why he did not end the war in Vietnam as he promised during his campaign, Nixon is not able to give an answer, to which one of the protesters says ‘You can’t stop it, can you? Even if you wanted to … The system won’t let you stop it....

Former President of Armenia Announces his Candidacy for Presidential Elections in 2008

BACKGROUND On October 26, 2007, the former president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced his candidacy for president in the upcoming 2008 presidential elections to be held in Armenia during a major opposition rally at the Freedom Square, Yerevan. The rally was organized by the All Armenian National Movement (HHSh) in collaboration with Armenia’s People Party led by Stepan Demirchyan (HZhK) and Republic Party (HK) led by Aram Sarksyan (the brother of former Prime Minister of Armenia, Vazgen Sarksyan assassinated on October 27, 1999)....

Levon Ter-Petrossian: A Blast From The Past Or A Mild Form Of Nostalgia?

The announcement of Armenia’s only former President Levon Ter-Petrossian that he is a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections raised many speculations about the election process and at the same time ended other speculations regarding the nature of those elections before Ter-Petrossian announced his candidacy. Before the announcement that he is a candidate on October 26, media and political observers in Armenia considered the presidential race as a one-man show where the election of the current Prime Minster Serge Sargsian was a done deal, however now the speculations and the bets have changed considerably as any observer of Armenian politics and media would concur....

Implications Of Parliamentary Election's Results In Armenia

Background: On May 12th Armenia held its widely anticipated parliamentary elections registering a major progress in the conduct of its elections and improvement in the transparency of the electoral process. Several thousand Armenian election observers representing dozens of local NGOs and political parties were joined by more than seven hundred foreign observers from CIS, EU and other European structures, invited to Armenia for the same purpose. Despite a number of registered voting irregularities that occurred at some polling stations where several of them resulted in criminal investigations by the Ministry of Justice, and continuous accusations by the radical Armenian opposition of government’s complicity in inappropriate acts constituting electoral fraud, such as bribing of voters at some polling stations and questionable methods of facilitating voter turn out, such as driving voters to the polling stations in mini vans and buses rented or owned by specific political parties taking part in the elections, the overall conduct of parliamentary elections in Armenia has received positive assessments from accredited foreign observers representing CIS, ODIHR/OSCE and PACE....

Hrant Dink, The Martyr For Many Causes

The assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on January 19 in Istanbul galvanized two nations in ways that no analyst or political leader could have fathomed. While all the sides, Armenian or Turkish, agree that what happened was a tragedy, there have been many different interpretations and reactions to Mr. Dink’s assassination. It should be pointed out that while most of the reactions and actions were spontaneous, there were cases where a conscious attempt was discernible by groups to appropriate this tragedy for political ends....

West of Eden

The announcement on May 11, that Artur Baghdasarian will resign from his post as the speaker of Armenia’s parliament and that his party, Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) will withdraw from the ruling coalition has redrawn Armenia’s political landscape significantly. The schism between Orinats Yerkir (OY) and the ruling coalition - comprised of the Republican Party of Armenia and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) - has been escalating over the past several weeks when Baghdasarian stepped up his criticism of the government on the latter’s both foreign and domestic policies....

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