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Why the EU is failing in its neighbourhood: the case of Armenia [PDF]

, 2012
As the Arab Spring has made clear, the EU’s strategic aim of being surrounded by a ring of secure, democratic, and prosperous friends has not yet materialized. While most previous analyses have found fault with inconsistent application of conditionality,
Van Hoof, Lieve
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Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 103-113, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
wiley   +1 more source

Spillovers from the Arab Revolts: is Armenia next in line? [PDF]

, 2011
Regime changes through taking to the streets do not always progress peacefully and produce intended results. The recent successful revolutions that have brought down two North African dictators have also inspired reform advocates in the EU’s Eastern ...
Kostanyan, Hrant
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Geopolitical Uses of Organised Forced Migration

International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 6, November 2025.
ABSTRACT State use of organised forced migration has played a central role in geopolitics and foreign policy. In this piece, we draw attention to its prevalence, including its widespread use as a tool in contemporary migration management policies. In order to effectively tackle questions of forced migration, it is necessary to first recognise that it ...
Fiona B. Adamson, Kelly M. Greenhill
wiley   +1 more source

Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue 5, Page 1594-1614, September 2025.
Abstract This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno‐Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on feminist approaches to geopolitics and post‐socialist coloniality, it asks whose security is served by a ‘geopolitical’ EU in Armenia and how ...
Laura Luciani
wiley   +1 more source

More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
wiley   +1 more source

Russia’s influence on the conflict dynamics in Nagorno Karabakh

Vojenské rozhledy, 2017
Frozen conflict in Nagorno Karabakh has been representing a threat to the regional stability for the last two decades. Sudden escalation of violence in 2016, known as Four-Day War, spurred new discussions on factors influencing the territorial dispute ...
Pavlína Bláhová
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Turkey's global strategy: Turkey and the Caucasus [PDF]

, 2011
Turkey has had long-standing links with the region called the ‘South(ern) Caucasus’, comprised of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, including the de-facto independent entities of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The area was, for a long time,
Oskanian, Kevork
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Beyond victimhood and perpetration: Reconstruction of the ingroup's historical role in eight Eastern and Western European countries under Nazi occupation

Political Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 785-805, August 2025.
Abstract The Nazi regime's aggressive expansion across Europe during WWII created a landscape of suffering, resistance, and collaboration. How do lay Europeans today reconstruct their ingroup's roles during Nazi occupation, and how do different role representations relate to defensive responses aimed at protecting the ingroup from threat? We tested two
Fiona Kazarovytska, Roland Imhoff, Gilad Hirschberger   +2 more
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Another perspective regarding the 2020 War in Karabakh: The relationship between a frozen conflict and securitization

Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2022
One of the most critical disputes in the Post-Soviet space is the long-lasting Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. While this issue has long been regarded as a land-based dispute to a large extent, it can also be stated from the ...
Selim Kurt, Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu
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