Armenia

Just Institutions after Genocide: Ricoeur's 'Little Ethics' and the Case of Armenia

by Michael Funk Deckard

This paper attempts to do three things. First, I will describe what I mean by ‘just institutions’, in which both terms... more This paper attempts to do three things. First, I will describe what I mean by ‘just institutions’, in which both terms are equally valid and equally problematic. There is no justice without institutions and there are no institutions without justice. Yet it is scarcely realistic to claim that all institutions are just. However, the goal and aim of justice is necessary. Second, I will give a brief outline of the history of political philosophy central to the argument I am making here, namely, that for a democracy to thrive it must ‘aim at the Good Life with and for Others in Just Institutions’ (see Ricoeur's Oneself as Another, 169-296). Just as it is necessary to examine the development and history of the polis, republic, and nation-state to comprehend where a country is now, so it is necessary to look briefly at the history of the concept of justice, especially with regards to intentions and motivations. Third, I will speculatively try to apply this account to the case of Armenia. I say speculative because I am aware how difficult, complicated and messy it is to apply theories to particular cases. Hence, it is in this third part that I am most likely to blunder. However, following Socrates’ cliché of ‘know thyself’, and as acting and suffering subjects, we should undertake the challenge of moral and political self-reflection and questioning necessary for a thriving eudaimoniac democracy.

1995 was a Good Year for the South Caucasus

by Uluslararası İlişkiler

Gerard J. Libaridian, "1995 was a Good Year for the South Caucasus", Uluslararası İlişkiler, Cilt 7, Sayı 26 (Yaz), 2010

Bu makale Güney Kafkasya’da etnik çatışmaları Azerbaycan, Ermenistan ve Gürcistan liderlerinin politikalarına... more Bu makale Güney Kafkasya’da etnik çatışmaları Azerbaycan, Ermenistan ve Gürcistan liderlerinin politikalarına odalanarak tartışmaktadır. Çatışmaların çözümlenmesinde liderliğin rolünü yerel, bölgesel ve uluslararası boyutları da dikkate alarak aydınlatıcı bir analiz sunmaktadır. Yazar 1995 yılını bölgede istikrarın sağlanma potensiyeli olan bir dönem olduğunu ileri sürerek, kalıcı bir çözüme ulaşılamamasının nedenlerini tartışmaktadır.

Review of Stewart, Angus, « The assassination of King Het’um II: the conversion of the Ilkhans and the Armenians ».

by Julien GILET

Cet article est tiré de l’ouvrage du même auteur : The Armenian kingdom and the Mamluks - War and diplomacy during the... more Cet article est tiré de l’ouvrage du même auteur : The Armenian kingdom and the Mamluks - War and diplomacy during the reigns of Het’um II (1289-1307), Leyde, 2001. Dans un premier temps l’A. déploie le contexte géopolitique de la région, centrée sur le royaume arménien de Cilicie jusqu’en 1307. Il accentue son propos sur les relations arméno-mongoles établies depuis le milieu du XIIIe s., soit avant l’arrivée des Mongols sur la scène syrienne. Ces relations sont principalement militaires : les Mongols, maîtres de l’Anatolie, protègent la frontière nord du royaume de Cilicie tandis que les Arméniens participent aux expéditions mongoles sur la Syrie. En 1266, soit 6 ans après la première incursion mongole en Syrie par Hülegü, les Mamelouks attaquent à leur tour les Arméniens, sans qu’il y ait de véritable réaction mongole.

Information & communication technology diffusion in the Republic of Armenia

by Katy Pearce

Pearce, K. E. (2012, March). Information & communication technology diffusion in the Republic of Armenia. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies & Development, Atlanta, GA. doi:10.1145/2160673.2160713

The Republic of Armenia, a high literacy and high poverty country, allows for a test of digital divide beliefs about... more The Republic of Armenia, a high literacy and high poverty country, allows for a test of digital divide beliefs about the role of economic wellbeing in ownership of and skills in using information communication technology. While socioeconomic status was related to adoption and skill, the role of English language proficiency in computer skill is noteworthy.

Current Neolithic Research in Armenia

by Makoto Arimura

The Late Palaeozoic trilobites of Iran and Armenia and their palaeogeographical significance.

by Rudy Lerosey-Aubril

LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. in press. The Late Palaeozoic trilobites of Iran and Armenia and their palaeogeographical significance. Geological Magazine.

The Iranian territory is composed of a mosaic of tectonic units, several of which underwent in the Permian and... more The Iranian territory is composed of a mosaic of tectonic units, several of which underwent in the Permian and Triassic periods a migration from northern Gondwana to southern Laurussia associated with the opening of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Although this broad outline of Permo-Triassic palaeogeographical evolution of Iranian microplates is now widely accepted, the individual timing of migration of these blocks, and their biogeographical relationships, remain insufficiently known. Here I review the Late Palaeozoic record of trilobites in Iran and Armenia, and discuss their palaeobiogeographical affinities in an attempt to shed light on the Permian palaeogeographical evolution of Iranian and Armenian terranes. Seven Iranian or Armenian localities, representative of five tectonic units, have yielded Carboniferous and Permian trilobites. Ten species are recognized, including two new taxa, Persia praecox gen. nov. sp. nov. and Pseudophillipsia (s.l.) parvizii sp. nov. P. praecox is the only Carboniferous (Tournaisian) species. The others are Wordian to Wuchiapingian in age and can be separated into three morphological groups, probably representing clades. One is composed of representatives of Acropyge, while the two others (armenica-group and paffenholzi-group) comprise species of Pseudophillipsia. Only P. (s.l.) parvizii sp. nov. from the Zagros Mountains (Arabian Plate) is not attributed to one of these groups. The distribution of trilobites in Iran and Armenia strongly suggests that the Alborz, Central Iran, and Transcaucasia microplates represented a single biogeographical unit in the Middle and Late Permian. Special relationships of this biochore with South China can also be stressed.

The EU’s engagement in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement

by Vahan Hunanyan

Bronze and Iron Age carnelian bead production in the UAE and Armenia: new perspectives

by Olivier Brunet

Brunet O., 2009, "Bronze and Iron Age carnelian bead production in the UAE and Armenia: new perspectives", Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 39 : 57–68.

During the Bronze Age, the Harappan civilization was characterized by its great production of carnelian beads, widely... more During the Bronze Age, the Harappan civilization was characterized by its great production of carnelian beads, widely exported in the Middle East. Etched carnelian and classical Harappan beads are considered, rightly, as cultural hallmarks of the Indus Civilization. Indeed, this theory has become so firmly rooted that many believe that all carnelian beads come from the Indus valley. But were there other sources? Did bead production on a more local scale exist, outside these vast circulation networks? This study examines beads that originated from two distinct geographical and cultural areas: the UAE and Armenia. In the third millennium BC, workshops in the Indus Valley produced most of the carnelian beads found in the UAE. In contrast, in the second millennium BC, another network of exchange came into existence. This study focuses on the material from the Shimāl and Џāyah necropoleis, which comprises more than 2300 objects. On the other side of Iran, in Armenia, carnelian beads are equally common. Where did they come from? The study of material from six sites distributed throughout the country, constituting a total of more than 1300 artefacts, raises a number of interesting questions about the products of this region.
This technological study reveals the existence outside the Indus Valley of different productions and levels of technical skill.
It suggests that we should revise our understanding of Bronze and Iron Age exchange networks, by offering another reading of
carnelian production in this part of the world.

Türkiye-Ermenistan ilişkileri: bir kısır döngü

by Aybars Görgülü

EU’s Current and Possible Role in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Resolution Process

by Anna Poghosyan

This paper examines the European Union’s (EU) contribution to conflict resolution in the South Caucasus. We will... more
This paper examines the European Union’s (EU) contribution to conflict resolution in the South Caucasus. We will examine the EU’s performance in two key areas of conflict resolution activity: mediation and peace building. Finally, we ask whether the EU is a coherent actor in conflict resolution.  While policy analyses on the EU’s new role in conflict intervention abound, there have been fewer attempts to import ideas from the field of conflict resolution to studies of the EU as an international actor.

Visible from space, understood during the fieldwork: the example of “desert kites” in Armenia

by Jacques E. Brochier

co-authored with O. Barge, 2011, 16th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Urban Archaeology and Prospection, Vienna, Austria, November 14th - 16th

The numerous publications dedicated to desert-kites show that the question of their function and their dating cannot... more The numerous publications dedicated to desert-kites show that the question of their function and their dating cannot be explained in a simple way: there are probably very different scenarios. Identified at first in the Near East, their area of distribution is getting bigger and bigger. In particular, a group of desert kytes has just been discovered and studied in Armenia.

The big size of desert-kites makes them often clearly visible on high-resolution satellite images. Coupled with fieldwork, the use of Google Earth has been very efficient: the study of the shape of the remains, of their architectural peculiarities, of their preservation as far as their mapping with GPS allows to distinguish their signature on the images. A set of 78 desert-kites has been discovered, leading to new investigations and fieldworks.

This iterative approach (satellite images / fieldwork) allows to build a spatial database with two scales: the scale of the desert-kite himself where are recorded fieldwork data and the scale of the region where every desert-kite is characterized by about twenty descriptors identified or measured on the images. This database allows to bring to light the regional specificity of these edifices.

In particular, the orientation of the desert – kites according to the aspect of local slopes, suspected on the ground, was able to be proved thanks to the analysis of the database. The circular correlation between the orientation of desert-kites and the local average aspect of slopes is rather strong and highly significant.

Armenian media landscape: Formative research for the alternative resources in media program

by Katy Pearce

This report aims to contribute to a broader public understanding of Armenian use of, attitudes toward, and perceptions of a diverse range of media. The study presents a detailed picture of the media landscape in Armenia. Based on a comprehensive survey of the Armenian population and eight complementary focus group discussions conducted in 2011, it provides in-depth data on trust in the media, attitudes towards media freedom and news consumption. It also provides a thorough investigation of the ownership and usage of various media technologies, including TV, radio, mobile phones, computers and the Internet.

Karabakh Conflict: The Long Road to Resolution

by Razmig Sarkissian

Sejarah Nagorno Karabakh

by Niam Chomsky

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Kalavan-2 (North of Lake Sevan, Armenia): a new Late Middle Paleolithic site in the Lesser Caucasus.

by Hervé Monchot

Ghukasyan, R., Colonge, D., Nahapetyan, S., Ollivier, V., Gasparyan, B., Monchot, H., Chataigner, C. 2010. Archaeology Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 38(4). 39–5,

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During a survey conducted in 2005, the open-air site of Kalavan-2 was discovered located at an altitude of about 1600... more During a survey conducted in 2005, the open-air site of Kalavan-2 was discovered located at an altitude of about 1600 m in the mountains dominating the northern bank of Lake Sevan (Armenia). The site yielded a Paleolithic industry associated with faunal remains, indicating that this is an important locality in the study of Armenian prehistory. Excavations at Kalavan-2 have revealed a stratigraphic sequence with several phases of occupation attributed to the Middle Paleolithic period. A radiocarbon date of a fragment of dental enamel from a large bovid provided an age of 34,200 ± 360 BP for the Mousterian level 7, confirming the attribution of this deposit to the final phase of the Middle Paleolithic and the importance of this site for the study of the last presence of Neanderthals in the Southern. Caucasus.

Erdogan’s Centennial Dream

by Yelena Osipova

Opinion, published in "A Different View", January-February 2010

The agenda of Turkish prime minister's visit to Washington in December 2009 was clear way in advance. It was not going... more The agenda of Turkish prime minister's visit to Washington in December 2009 was clear way in advance. It was not going to be about Turkey's relations with Armenia, or Israel for that matter, despite the wishful thinking of some. Rather, it was going to focus on Turkey's increasingly assertive foreign policy and America's topics of the day: Afghanistan and Iran.

erdumn, ucht, carayut´iwn. Armenian aristocrats as diplomatic partners of Eastern Roman Emperors, 387-884/885 AD

by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

published in: Armenian Review 52 (2010) p. 139–215.

This paper deals with the diplomatic relations between the Armenian aristocracy (as a whole and as individuals... more This paper deals with the diplomatic relations between the Armenian aristocracy (as a whole and as individuals respectively) and the most important neighboring Christian monarch, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor. The study concentrates on the period from the partition of Greater Armenia (387 AD) between Rome and Persia and the end of the Arsacid rule until the renewal of the Armenian monarchy under the Bagratids. During these centuries characterized by the absence of an Armenian King, foreign powers came to terms on the one hand with individual powerful noblemen, who were appointed to represent the entire Armenia, bearing the title of marzpan, sparapet, patrik and others, while on the other hand they negotiated directly with various aristocratic houses (as they did in former times). Based on contemporaneous Armenian, Greek, and other sources the paper aims to analyze the contents of the covenants between Armenian aristocrats and Byzantine Emperors (declaration of allegiance, bestowal of titles, military assistance, etc.), the diplomatic means and customs (oath, presents, charters – the “diplomatics of diplomacy”), the sources’ terminology and the interpretation of the relations between the Emperor and the Armenian aristocracy given by the sources. The description of these relations in the Armenian sources is consequently compared to the depiction of those of the Armenian aristocrats’ to the Sasanian Great King and the Arab Caliph. In that way, a “Byzantinocentric” interpretation of Armenia’s foreign relations during this period should be avoided, while at the same time efforts are made to detect specific elements of the Armeno-Byzantine political relations in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

A Passage to Armenia

by Charles Greenberg

This paper preprint draft was presented at the Medical Library Association annual meeting on May 16th, 2011.

Slide presentation for this paper is available at: http://www.slideshare.net/cjgberg/a-passage-to-armenia-mla-2011-presentation-at-ics-paper-session


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"Reconceptualizing the Seljuk-Cilician Frontier: Armenians, Latins and Turks in Conflict and Alliance during the Early Thirteenth Century"

by Sara Nur Yildiz

Pulblished in: Florin Curta, ed., Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis. Frontiers in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005, pp. 91-120.

Between New Jerusalem and the Beast in Human Form. The Picture of the Later Roman and Early Byzantine State in the Armenian Historiography of the 5th to 8th century

by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

published in: Pro Georgia. Journal of Kartvelological Studies 19 (2009 = Proceedings of the VII. Annual Caucasus-Conference in memoriam Grigol Peradze, Warsaw, December 4th-8th, 2008), p. 51–95.