Can the West Be a Reliable Partner of Armenia? Part II
In Part II of a two-part series examining Armenia’s pivot to the West, Gaidz Minassian examines the question of the reliability of the partnership with Americans and Europeans.
Gaïdz Minassian is a journalist at Le Monde, a doctor in political sciences, lecturer at Sciences Po Paris in International Relations, and an associate expert at CERI-Sciences Po Paris. He is the author of several books in international relations, including his last one, "Les sentiers de la victoire. Peut-on encore gagner une guerre?" Passés composés, Paris 2020.
In Part II of a two-part series examining Armenia’s pivot to the West, Gaidz Minassian examines the question of the reliability of the partnership with Americans and Europeans.
While Armenia undertook a “huge strategic shift” toward the West two years ago, the question of the reliability of the partnership with Americans and Europeans remains unresolved, writes Gaidz Minassian.
The restoration of Armenian sovereignty in 1991 prompts us to contemplate the future of Armenia and its position in the international order, writes Gaidz Minassian.This is all the more pressing when the Armenian state has never been thoroughly examined through the lens of international relations theories.
A former French defense attaché in the South Caucasus affirms that the government of former President Serzh Sargsyan refused to accept the obvious starting from 2011: the Armenian military had been unable to execute its tasks for some time.
For more than a month, Artsakh has been cut off from the rest of the world by the joint will of Azerbaijan and Russia as the international community watches silently because Artsakh is the blind spot of the peace negotiations, writes Gaidz Minassian.
There are three scenarios of how the war in Ukraine might end for Russia and what this will mean for the three countries of the South Caucasus. Gaidz Minassian examines the strategies of the players in the region.
As Artsakh is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster, three actors — Russia, Azerbaijan and the West — have taken the population of Artsakh hostage, writes Gaidz Minassian.
The interplay between two conflicts, one in Eastern Europe, the other in the Caucasus provides a global dimension to the issues they contain. Beyond the common space-time matrix, what can we learn from what lies at the nexus of these two conflicts?
While the actors have changed and the Old World framework was replaced by a New World format comprised of 21st century individuals, the recent Global Armenian Summit missed the mark, writes Gaidz Minassian.
An interview by Gaidz Minassian with former French Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group and former French Ambassador to Ukraine, Jacques Faure, who discusses the Ukraine-Russia and Armenia-Azerbaijan wars.
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