Opinion

Drawing on Armenia’s history and recent security challenges, K.M. Greg Sarkissian reflects on what sovereignty means for a small state navigating competing powers and argues that resilience depends not on choosing between geopolitical camps, but on strengthening institutions, diversifying partnerships, and building a country where Armenians can confidently build their future.

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.

Why do nations cling to familiar stories, even when reality changes? Drawing on theories of ontological security, collective memory and political psychology, Andronik Papyan examines how the loss of Artsakh unsettled Armenia's national narrative and the search for a new sense of collective identity.

Traveling through Sarajevo, Mikayel Zolyan reflects on the city’s long history of war, nationalism and coexistence. From the assassination that helped ignite World War I to the devastation of the 1990s, he considers how a society emerges from conflict and learns to live with its past.

Baku’s “Western Azerbaijan” narrative continues to be prominent in state media, education and official discourse. Tatev Hayrapetyan examines how the concept has evolved, how it is being institutionalized, and what its continued promotion means for Armenia and the prospects for lasting regional peace.

As Armenia redefines its foreign policy after the collapse of the post-Soviet security order, Ferdinant Grigoryan explores how strategic diversification and regional connectivity are reshaping the country's role in an increasingly fragmented geopolitical landscape.

A beach house in Lebanon, Armenian khachkars and Kurdish orchards in Iraq seem to have little in common and while the legal and geopolitical contexts may differ, Karena Avedissian traces the logic that connects them, revealing how security narratives can transform people, places and memory into perceived threats.

Syria has returned to the center of regional diplomacy, emerging as a testing ground for a new balance of power. As Turkey, Israel and other actors compete to shape the post-Assad order, the consequences of this shifting regional architecture extend beyond the Levant to the South Caucasus.

Armenia's takeover of Electric Networks of Armenia is about more than ownership. Drawing on international examples, André Vartan-Boghossian examines what makes an electricity system resilient, competitive and accountable, and why public control of critical infrastructure may strengthen both sovereignty and democracy.

Against the backdrop of Yerevan’s wine festival, Mikayel Zolyan explores the anxieties and hopes of post-election Armenia, the challenge of Russian interference, the responsibilities of citizenship, and what it means to shape the country’s future rather than simply watch it unfold.