Does Armenia Need a Foreign Policy? By Armenia’s First Ambassador to the United States and Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,Tufts University WATERTOWN, Mass.The Armenian National Committee (ANC) of Eastern Massachusetts is pleased to announce the third lecture of the Mikael Varantian Lecture Series, or launched in early 2016. Ambassador Rouben Shougarian,will present his latest book Does Armenia Need a Foreign Policy? at the Armenian Cultural Foundation (441 Mystic Street, Arlington, and MA) on Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Amb. Rouben Shougarian,Armenia’s first ambassador to the United States and lecturer at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. (Photo: Kenneth Martin) Does Armenia Need Foreign Policy? —a paraphrase of Henry Kissinger’s famed title, is an attempt to look above and beyond traditional political thinking in Armenia and Diaspora during the twenty-four years of independence. Crucial moments of the recent state- building process are presented in the context of the relations with Russia and the rest of the world, and Turkey included. Three consecutive phases in the modern history of Armenia’s foreign policy are analyzed in their relation to the concept of sovereignty and the chance to create geopolitical alternative for the country’s future. The factors of [...]
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