Tag: EVN Security Report

Armenia hosted the second Yerevan Dialogue in partnership with France, India, and Poland. Nerses Kopalyan, author of the EVN Security Report series, talks about the strategic implications of this emerging partnership and what securitized minilateralism could mean for Armenia’s evolving security architecture.

What mutually beneficial foundations could bring France, India, Poland and Armenia together in a security alliance, and what might such a quartet mean for Armenia’s security architecture? To explore this, Nerses Kopalyan introduces the concept of securitized minilateralism.

Is Aliyev genuinely pursuing peace, or is he using negotiations to cement his geopolitical gains? Nerses Kopalyan, author of the EVN Security Report series dissects Azerbaijan’s approach to the peace talks and explores the deeper reasons why Aliyev will not sign a peace deal with Armenia.

Aliyev’s unilateral declaration of a draft peace agreement was a calculated gamble to capture U.S. attention rather than a genuine step toward peace with Armenia. This strategy backfired, exposing Azerbaijan’s bad faith engagement, with Washington preferring the narrative of its strategic partner Armenia.

Looking at the emerging contours of the Trump Doctrine and its implications for the South Caucasus, Nerses Kopalyan examines competing policy orientations within Trump's incoming administration and how these will shape U.S. engagement with Armenia amid broader global and geopolitical priorities.

There has been extensive debate about Washington’s strategic policy goals and growing investment in Armenia's security architecture. To understand the strategic framework guiding this engagement, the concept of “defense diplomacy” is introduced in this month’s security report.

In order for Armenia to mitigate, anticipate, and deter Azerbaijan's threats and potential attacks, it must understand and qualify the mechanisms that define the Aliyev regime’s propensity for bellicosity, and gauge its “coercive credibility”.

For the January 2024 EVN Security Report, Dr. Nerses Kopalyan introduced a rationalist explanation of war to address the causal mechanisms shaping Aliyev’s incentives for being conflict-prone. He speaks with EVN Report's Editor-in-Chief Maria Titizian about how rationalist models of war are applied to account for the decision-making and policy preferences of the Aliyev regime and why peace for the Azerbaijani president is deemed an “irrational” preference.

EVN Report's Editor-in-Chief Maria Titizian speaks with Dr. Nerses Kopalyan, author of the monthly series "EVN Security Report" about regional dynamics in November that demonstrated acute developments on track to produce unanticipated realignments, altering Armenia’s security environment and enhancing its security and foreign policy diversification.

EVN Report's Editor-in-Chief Maria Titizian speaks with Dr. Nerses Kopalyan, author of the monthly series "EVN Security Report" about the objective of Armenia's Western pivot, which is neither ideational nor conceptually geopolitical but rather the need to rupture the entire logic of dependency and establish sustainable security independence for the Republic of Armenia.