From ‘revolution’ to war: deciphering Armenia’s populist foreign policy-making process

IF 0.8 2区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-25 DOI:10.1080/14683857.2022.2111111

H. Nikoghosyan, Vahram Ter‐Matevosyan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Since April 2018, Armenia has gone through a series of dramatic events. Convinced of its ‘democratic invincibility,’ the regime that emerged after ‘the Velvet Revolution’ espoused the view that Armenia’s new, democratic facade must secure increased support from Brussels and Washington and continued loyalty from its security provider – the Kremlin. Nevertheless, the perennial security issues, chief among them the unresolved Nagorno Karabakh conflict, were overlooked by the new elite. This article examines the sources of the foreign policy-making style of the populist regime in Armenia and explores the extent to which they have affected the decision-making process and its ‘resultants.’ The article argues that the incoherent and erratic nature of the new regime’s policy formulation and enactment, which underestimated acute security challenges and degraded existing institutional checks and balances, caused unprecedented wreckage to Armenia’s national security architecture.

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从“革命”到战争：解读亚美尼亚的民粹主义外交政策制定过程

摘要自2018年4月以来，亚美尼亚经历了一系列戏剧性事件。“天鹅绒革命”后出现的政权深信其“民主不可战胜”，支持亚美尼亚新的民主外表必须确保布鲁塞尔和华盛顿的更多支持，并确保其安全提供者克里姆林宫的持续忠诚。然而，长期存在的安全问题，其中最主要的是尚未解决的纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫冲突，却被新精英忽视了。本文考察了亚美尼亚民粹主义政权外交决策风格的来源，并探讨了它们对决策过程及其“结果”的影响程度文章认为，新政权的政策制定和颁布不连贯、不稳定，低估了严峻的安全挑战，削弱了现有的体制制衡，对亚美尼亚的国家安全架构造成了前所未有的破坏。

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Southeast European and Black Sea Studies AREA STUDIES-

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3.00

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19.00%

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期刊介绍： The aim of the journal is to establish a line of communication with these regions of Europe. Previously isolated from the European mainstream, the Balkan and Black Sea regions are in need of serious comparative study as are the individual countries, no longer "at the edge" of Europe. The principal disciplines covered by the journal are politics, political economy, international relations and modern history; other disciplinary approaches are accepted as appropriate. The journal will take both an academic and also a more practical policy-oriented approach and hopes to compensate for the serious information deficit on the countries under consideration.