Dr. Gevorg Melikian
Founder & CEO of the Armenian Institute for Resilience & Statecraft (2023). A policy analyst and former political advisor of then-President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian (2018-22) on foreign relations with considerable professional expertise in foreign and security policies, hybrid warfare, theories of International Relations, military alliances, post-Soviet/Eurasian space studies, conflict management.
Currently, a teaching professor of “Hybrid warfare and the Globalizing World” and “U.S. Foreign Policy” at the Russian-Armenian University and the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs, Yerevan, Armenia. A member of the Joint Liaison Group on Confidence-building measures in support of lasting peace in the South Caucasus (JOLIG).
PhD degree in Political Science (sub-field: International relations) is from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. MA in Political Science (sub-field: International Relations) with concentrations in security issues, alliance formations, and conflict resolution from Ohio University. Recipient of US Government sponsored Muskie Fellowship (IREX administrated) stipend for 2009-2010.
Alumnus of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Seminar on Regional Security (SRS)), 2023.
A visiting research fellow at World Security Institute/Center for Defense Information, Washington DC and was involved in a research program by young researchers from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.
Interned at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Strasbourg, France.
Holder of a number of international certificates and awards and was invited as a guest speaker to a numerous international and local conferences, seminars and round tables.
Fluent in English, French and Russian.
Address: Yerevan, Armenia
Currently, a teaching professor of “Hybrid warfare and the Globalizing World” and “U.S. Foreign Policy” at the Russian-Armenian University and the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs, Yerevan, Armenia. A member of the Joint Liaison Group on Confidence-building measures in support of lasting peace in the South Caucasus (JOLIG).
PhD degree in Political Science (sub-field: International relations) is from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. MA in Political Science (sub-field: International Relations) with concentrations in security issues, alliance formations, and conflict resolution from Ohio University. Recipient of US Government sponsored Muskie Fellowship (IREX administrated) stipend for 2009-2010.
Alumnus of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Seminar on Regional Security (SRS)), 2023.
A visiting research fellow at World Security Institute/Center for Defense Information, Washington DC and was involved in a research program by young researchers from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.
Interned at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Strasbourg, France.
Holder of a number of international certificates and awards and was invited as a guest speaker to a numerous international and local conferences, seminars and round tables.
Fluent in English, French and Russian.
Address: Yerevan, Armenia
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Papers by Dr. Gevorg Melikian
cooperative and competitive threads — a dance of strategic “co-opetition,” so to speak.
The choice of the year 2015 is somewhat symbolic, although politically important as well (at least, for the Armenian side), and helps localize Turkey in a given time-frame between 2015 and the upcoming elections of the Turkish president in 2019.
To (help) better understand Turkey and its multiple layers, this paper pursues a threefold endeavor: (1) to conduct a field-research through tête-à-tête meetings with Ankara-based opinions makers, scholars, academics, think-tanks, the media, diplomats and politicians, and the civil society representatives, and describe, explore and analyze current dynamics of Turkey’s domestic political realm and Turkish foreign policy directly and indirectly related to Armenia; (2) to produce a better analytical framework and an outcome-oriented paper for journalists, experts and policy-makers in Armenia; and (3) to strongly advocate for a prejudice-free approach among journalists, experts, analysts, and politicians while exploring and examining a given country’s (in this case, Turkey’s) policies considered as hostile.
Research Papers by Dr. Gevorg Melikian
cooperative and competitive threads — a dance of strategic “co-opetition,” so to speak.
The choice of the year 2015 is somewhat symbolic, although politically important as well (at least, for the Armenian side), and helps localize Turkey in a given time-frame between 2015 and the upcoming elections of the Turkish president in 2019.
To (help) better understand Turkey and its multiple layers, this paper pursues a threefold endeavor: (1) to conduct a field-research through tête-à-tête meetings with Ankara-based opinions makers, scholars, academics, think-tanks, the media, diplomats and politicians, and the civil society representatives, and describe, explore and analyze current dynamics of Turkey’s domestic political realm and Turkish foreign policy directly and indirectly related to Armenia; (2) to produce a better analytical framework and an outcome-oriented paper for journalists, experts and policy-makers in Armenia; and (3) to strongly advocate for a prejudice-free approach among journalists, experts, analysts, and politicians while exploring and examining a given country’s (in this case, Turkey’s) policies considered as hostile.
In this report, we delve into the multilayer analysis of current and potential trajectories in the South Caucasus through the lens of realpolitik to discuss the implications of the post-Nagorno-Karabakh war landscape for emerging regional trends, and to unravel the complex interplay of interests, and misconceptions about the potential peace initiatives. While addressing the West’s excessive optimism regarding positive dynamics in the region, the article seeks to identify factors impeding genuine peace opportunities and questions the realism of the West’s envisaged democratic stability, given the persisting power imbalances and an evolving architecture of cooperative autocratic hegemony in the region, jointly imposed by Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Iran at Armenia’s expense.