In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of March 21: Baku resumes and intensifies claims of ceasefire violations. Since March 16, Armenia’s Defense Ministry has denied 13 such accusations; the Margara Crossing on the Armenia-Turkey border is temporarily open to facilitate the transport of humanitarian aid from Armenia to Syria; Armenia appoints a military attaché to the UN.
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.
Armenian experts help make sense of the ongoing discussions surrounding a possible peace deal between Baku and Yerevan, and what developments can actually be expected in the coming months.
Armenia’s defeat in the 2020 Artsakh War highlighted the need to reform the country’s entire military system, from command to education. While authorities claim that reforms are underway, lack of clarity and transparency has become a critical problem.
With many Armenians sensing that their country is facing an existential threat from its neighbors, more and more women are looking for ways to defend their country, beyond motherhood, writes Karena Avedissian.
Since the 2020 Artsakh War, Armenia has faced an uphill battle of recovering and upgrading its arsenal. The latest Azerbaijani invasion in September 2022, made the complexities of arms procurement, and the endeavor of doing so independent of Russia, central to Armenia’s strategy.
Over the past year, Artsakh faced periods of heightened tensions as Baku continued its policy of harassment and terror including a blockade that has cut off the 120,000 residents of Artsakh from Armenia and the rest of the world.
The United States has been projecting soft power in Armenia since the early days of independence; and while Russia has utilized its language and cultural heritage as soft power instruments, it still prefers coercive methods over soft power.
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, recent strategic, military, political and diplomatic developments demonstrate that things are shifting in Armenia, writes Gaidz Minassian.
Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched a major attack on the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia at approximately midnight on September 13, 2022. A US-brokered ceasefire came into effect late on the evening of September 14, which continues to hold.
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