Statecraft & Governance

Azerbaijan’s Identity Crisis and the Political Need for Culture Wars

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.
EVN Security Report: November 2022

EVN Security Report: November 2022

The security context for the month of November demonstrates observable decline for Armenia as Azerbaijan intensified and amplified its hybrid warfare activities, attempting to neutralize Armenia’s growing attempts at the diplomatization of its deterrence capabilities.

EVN Security Report: October 2022

EVN Security Report: October 2022

The security context for the month of October can be better understood as the changing configuration between Armenia’s implementation of its diplomatization-of-security doctrine against Azerbaijan’s multi-tiered hybrid warfare doctrine.

EVN Security Report: September 2022

EVN Security Report: September 2022

Armenia’s security situation remains precarious, as Azerbaijan has exponentially increased its use of interstate conflict mechanisms, undertaking both large-scale invasions as well as incrementally utilizing hybrid warfare to justify violations of the ceasefire.

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