Azerbaijan’s recent campaign to erase and reappropriate Armenian heritage is more than an exercise in historical revisionism. Nerses Kopalyan examines the strategic logic behind this initiative, demonstrating how Baku’s dire political need for a culture war with Armenia is designed to address its own strategic depth, while countering Armenia’s growing political capital in Washington, D.C.
For more than three decades, the Armenia-Turkey border has been closed but trading continued through indirect routes. Beatriz Arslanian examines Turkey’s decision to authorize direct trade, its economic implications for Armenia, and whether incremental economic ties can help advance long-delayed political normalization.
The European Union has invested heavily in Armenia’s resilience against foreign information manipulation. But when its own Special Representative reduces Azerbaijan’s state-sponsored historical revisionism to competing “narratives,” diplomacy risks becoming a vehicle for the very manipulation the EU seeks to counter.
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