Vicken Cheterian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicken Cheterian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicken |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheterian |
| SIGNATURE | CHETERIAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Webster University; Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5712-3947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan
In 2020, the Azerbaijani army launched a massive attack on Armenian positions in Nagorno-Karabakh. After 44 days of fighting, Azerbaijan scored a major victory, forcing Armenian forces to retreat from the territories around Karabakh, followed by the deployment of Russian peacekeeping troops. While many analysts have focused on advanced technology to explain Azerbaijan’s victory, this article argues that a comparative study of the First Karabakh W…
Relations Russie-Turquie
Un facteur important qui a décidé du sort de la seconde guerre du Haut-Karabakh a été l’intervention, ou la non-intervention, de puissances extérieures. Alors que de nombreux analystes s’attendaient à un rôle actif de la Russie pour défendre son allié nominal, l’Arménie, les dirigeants russes ont préféré adopter le rôle de médiateur entre les parties belligérantes, malgré l’intervention directe de l’armée turque dans les opérations militaires aze…
Friend and Foe
The interaction between Russia and Turkey since 2015 suggests a new quality in foreign affairs combining tactical alliance and strategic competition. The Russian invasion of Ukraine did not change this. By studying the cases of Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh, we observe not only elements of geopolitical competition and cooperation but also that the combination of the two contradictory approaches in foreign affairs created new opportunities be…
Framing Sectarianism in the Middle East
This paper argues that a long view perspective of contemporary sectarianism between Sunni and Shia Islam in the Middle East could be read on the background of earlier forms of sectarianism going back to the 19th and 20th century history of the region. Such an approach would disentangle sectarianism from primordial narratives as an intrinsic problem of Islam going back to the early schism of the 7th century and place it in social formations and so…
Diverses recensions
Plus que d'une tude scientifique au sens strict, l'ouvrage de Monique Slodzian relve de l'essai critique, marqu par une libert de ton surprenante, qui tourne parfois la fronde, voire au manifeste. Sa principale qualit est sans doute de mettre en lumire de jeunes crivains russes assez peu connus en Occident, bien que leurs oeuvres soient de plus en plus traduites : Zakhar Prilepine, Sergue Chargounov, Guerman Sadoulaev, Roman Sentchine, Mikhal Eli…
Isis genocide against the Yazidis and mass violence in the Middle East
The mass violence inflicted by the radical Islamist fighters of the ‘Islamic State’ organization on the Yazidi population of Iraq is the latest of modern genocides. The violence has placed this little known but ancient community of the Middle East at the centre of international attention, triggering direct international intervention in the fight against ISIS. This article aims to study the motives of ISIS in attacking the Kurds of northern Iraq a…
The Uses and Abuses of History
Did the 1915 genocide of the Ottoman Armenians play a role in the genesis of the Karabakh war? In the early phase of the conflict, many Armenian activists and politicians drew parallels between the evolving struggles of the present and the traumatic events of 1915. This essay explores the ways in which Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey have referred to the events of 1915 to formulate their policies towards the conflict. The essay argues that the lar…
The Last Closed Border of the Cold War
In the post-Soviet Caucasus, a number of borders remain blocked as a result of ethno-territorial conflicts that emerged in the early 1990s. Yet, there is one closed border that does not fit the pattern: the Turkish–Armenian border. This border has not been the site of any conflict in that period, and belongs to an entirely different geopolitical space: the border that previously separated the Soviet Union from Turkey, as well as independent Armen…
The poisoned well
Roger Hardy offers readers a historical narrative to explain the sources of violence and breakdown in the Middle East. In ten concise chapters, he provides a background reading of the period in between the defeat and dismantling of the Ottoman empire and the emergence of postwar independent states—such as Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and their neighbours—many of which are in their turn disintegrating in front of our eyes, unleashing endless violen…
The Armenians in modern Turkey
In her book, The Armenians in modern Turkey, Talin Suciyan sheds new light on the circumstances of the Armenian genocide survivors who remained inside Turkey, and had to live in an environment of denial. Not only did the Turkish state deny its act of genocide—and over a century later Ankara still refuses to take responsibility for the annihilation of Armenians and other Christian nations of Asia Minor—but also imposed this denialism on the remain…
Isis and the Killing Fields of the Middle East
ISIS has successfully linked jihadi ideology to sectarian division
The iron cage of liberalism
Journal Article The iron cage of liberalism: international politics and unarmed revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. By Daniel P. Ritter Get access The iron cage of liberalism: international politics and unarmed revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. By Daniel P. Ritter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. 288pp. £48.50. ISBN 978 0 19965 832 9. Available as e-book. Vicken Cheterian Vicken Cheterian 1Webster University, Sw…
Shattered dreams of revolution
Bedross Der Matossian brings a valuable contribution to our understanding of both modern revolutions and late Ottoman history. Shattered dreams of revolution provides a unique perspective on the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, which put an end to the long reign of the autocratic Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and marked the unravelling of the Ottoman empire. The book looks at the early revolutionary processes from the perspective of three ethno-religious gro…
The Origins and Trajectory of the Caucasian Conflicts
Conflicts in the Caucasus began as a result of the weakening of the institutions of the Soviet Union. Since then there have been some major transformations. Initially, there were ‘triangular conflicts' with the centre (Moscow) on the one side and two competing national projects on the other side (a Union Republic and a minority group with an autonomous status within this republic). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, these conflicts evolved i…
Karabakh conflict after Kosovo
A series of events in 2008 influenced the Karabakh conflict resolution efforts: the Kosovo declaration of independence, the August war, and Russian recognition of independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Two new diplomatic initiatives to resolve the Karabakh conflict were launched immediately after the August war, one by Russia and the second by Turkey. This article discusses why the two initiatives failed, and the structural problems of Karabakh …
Making states and breaking states
Two events in 2008 shaped the political map of the Caucasus: the West's decision on the independence of Kosovo and the Russo-Georgian War. First, on 17 February, Kosovo authorities unilaterally declared the independence of what was at the time a UN protectorate. This declaration enjoyed much support in the West, including near-immediate recognition by key states such as the US, Germany, France, the UK, and a dozen others. But it also faced strong…
The ghosts of freedom
Kyrgyzstan
The violent overthrow of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, president of Kyrgyzstan, in April 2010, followed by inter-ethnic clashes in June, produced a new security problem in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan, once prais
Environmental pressure, neoliberal reforms, and geopolitical competition in the Maghreb
Environmental challenges as a factor of security problems have entered mainstream discourse. Various international organisations have developed new instruments to look at the overlap between environmental problems and security threats. One such theatre of late has been the Maghreb, a sensitive region bordering the European Union. By looking at EU–Maghreb relations, this paper argues that, very often, environmental discourse is part of several oth…
From Reform and Transition to ‘Coloured Revolutions’
Peaceful revolutions known as ‘coloured revolutions’ have overthrown the previous paradigm known as ‘transition’: rapid privatization and democratization reforms, to move post-socialist societies to a Western model of governance. In a number of post-Soviet countries, transition did not lead to the promised results. To understand this failure, the economic side of transition – mass privatization – should be contrasted with the political side – dem…
The August 2008 war in Georgia
Following the five days’ war between Georgia and Russia, a highly politicized debate began about ‘who started the war’. While this debate is far from over, it is important to analyse whether the 2008 war marks an important evolution in the series of conflicts that started in the Caucasus simultaneously with the weakening and collapse of the Soviet Union. While in the late 1980s and early 1990s the conflicts were the result of mass mobilization ar…
Georgia's Rose Revolution
The wave of Colour Revolutions, which started in Serbia in the year 2000, and spread to Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, has changed the existing concepts on how transformation would take form in countries exiting from “really existing socialism.” In the early years following the collapse of the Soviet state, the dominant concepts were that of “transition” or slow, top-down reforms that would transform the existing political systems from ruling-…
Georgia's Rose Revolution
The wave of Colour Revolutions, which started in Serbia in the year 2000, and spread to Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, has changed the existing concepts on how transformation would take form in countries exiting from “really existing socialism.” In the early years following the collapse of the Soviet state, the dominant concepts were that of “transition” or slow, top-down reforms that would transform the existing political systems from ruling-…
The Last Closed Border of the Cold War
In the post-Soviet Caucasus, a number of borders remain blocked as a result of ethno-territorial conflicts that emerged in the early 1990s. Yet, there is one closed border that does not fit the pattern: the Turkish–Armenian border. This border has not been the site of any conflict in that period, and belongs to an entirely different geopolitical space: the border that previously separated the Soviet Union from Turkey, as well as independent Armen…
Isis genocide against the Yazidis and mass violence in the Middle East
The mass violence inflicted by the radical Islamist fighters of the ‘Islamic State’ organization on the Yazidi population of Iraq is the latest of modern genocides. The violence has placed this little known but ancient community of the Middle East at the centre of international attention, triggering direct international intervention in the fight against ISIS. This article aims to study the motives of ISIS in attacking the Kurds of northern Iraq a…
The Uses and Abuses of History
Did the 1915 genocide of the Ottoman Armenians play a role in the genesis of the Karabakh war? In the early phase of the conflict, many Armenian activists and politicians drew parallels between the evolving struggles of the present and the traumatic events of 1915. This essay explores the ways in which Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey have referred to the events of 1915 to formulate their policies towards the conflict. The essay argues that the lar…
The August 2008 war in Georgia
Following the five days’ war between Georgia and Russia, a highly politicized debate began about ‘who started the war’. While this debate is far from over, it is important to analyse whether the 2008 war marks an important evolution in the series of conflicts that started in the Caucasus simultaneously with the weakening and collapse of the Soviet Union. While in the late 1980s and early 1990s the conflicts were the result of mass mobilization ar…
Friend and Foe
The interaction between Russia and Turkey since 2015 suggests a new quality in foreign affairs combining tactical alliance and strategic competition. The Russian invasion of Ukraine did not change this. By studying the cases of Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh, we observe not only elements of geopolitical competition and cooperation but also that the combination of the two contradictory approaches in foreign affairs created new opportunities be…
Karabakh conflict after Kosovo
A series of events in 2008 influenced the Karabakh conflict resolution efforts: the Kosovo declaration of independence, the August war, and Russian recognition of independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Two new diplomatic initiatives to resolve the Karabakh conflict were launched immediately after the August war, one by Russia and the second by Turkey. This article discusses why the two initiatives failed, and the structural problems of Karabakh …
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan
In 2020, the Azerbaijani army launched a massive attack on Armenian positions in Nagorno-Karabakh. After 44 days of fighting, Azerbaijan scored a major victory, forcing Armenian forces to retreat from the territories around Karabakh, followed by the deployment of Russian peacekeeping troops. While many analysts have focused on advanced technology to explain Azerbaijan’s victory, this article argues that a comparative study of the First Karabakh W…
Framing Sectarianism in the Middle East
This paper argues that a long view perspective of contemporary sectarianism between Sunni and Shia Islam in the Middle East could be read on the background of earlier forms of sectarianism going back to the 19th and 20th century history of the region. Such an approach would disentangle sectarianism from primordial narratives as an intrinsic problem of Islam going back to the early schism of the 7th century and place it in social formations and so…
The Origins and Trajectory of the Caucasian Conflicts
Conflicts in the Caucasus began as a result of the weakening of the institutions of the Soviet Union. Since then there have been some major transformations. Initially, there were ‘triangular conflicts' with the centre (Moscow) on the one side and two competing national projects on the other side (a Union Republic and a minority group with an autonomous status within this republic). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, these conflicts evolved i…
Isis and the Killing Fields of the Middle East
ISIS has successfully linked jihadi ideology to sectarian division
From Reform and Transition to ‘Coloured Revolutions’
Peaceful revolutions known as ‘coloured revolutions’ have overthrown the previous paradigm known as ‘transition’: rapid privatization and democratization reforms, to move post-socialist societies to a Western model of governance. In a number of post-Soviet countries, transition did not lead to the promised results. To understand this failure, the economic side of transition – mass privatization – should be contrasted with the political side – dem…
The poisoned well
Roger Hardy offers readers a historical narrative to explain the sources of violence and breakdown in the Middle East. In ten concise chapters, he provides a background reading of the period in between the defeat and dismantling of the Ottoman empire and the emergence of postwar independent states—such as Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and their neighbours—many of which are in their turn disintegrating in front of our eyes, unleashing endless violen…
The Armenians in modern Turkey
In her book, The Armenians in modern Turkey, Talin Suciyan sheds new light on the circumstances of the Armenian genocide survivors who remained inside Turkey, and had to live in an environment of denial. Not only did the Turkish state deny its act of genocide—and over a century later Ankara still refuses to take responsibility for the annihilation of Armenians and other Christian nations of Asia Minor—but also imposed this denialism on the remain…
Environmental pressure, neoliberal reforms, and geopolitical competition in the Maghreb
Environmental challenges as a factor of security problems have entered mainstream discourse. Various international organisations have developed new instruments to look at the overlap between environmental problems and security threats. One such theatre of late has been the Maghreb, a sensitive region bordering the European Union. By looking at EU–Maghreb relations, this paper argues that, very often, environmental discourse is part of several oth…
Georgia's Rose Revolution
The wave of Colour Revolutions, which started in Serbia in the year 2000, and spread to Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, has changed the existing concepts on how transformation would take form in countries exiting from “really existing socialism.” In the early years following the collapse of the Soviet state, the dominant concepts were that of “transition” or slow, top-down reforms that would transform the existing political systems from ruling-…
From Reform and Transition to ‘Coloured Revolutions’
Peaceful revolutions known as ‘coloured revolutions’ have overthrown the previous paradigm known as ‘transition’: rapid privatization and democratization reforms, to move post-socialist societies to a Western model of governance. In a number of post-Soviet countries, transition did not lead to the promised results. To understand this failure, the economic side of transition – mass privatization – should be contrasted with the political side – dem…
The August 2008 war in Georgia
Following the five days’ war between Georgia and Russia, a highly politicized debate began about ‘who started the war’. While this debate is far from over, it is important to analyse whether the 2008 war marks an important evolution in the series of conflicts that started in the Caucasus simultaneously with the weakening and collapse of the Soviet Union. While in the late 1980s and early 1990s the conflicts were the result of mass mobilization ar…
The ghosts of freedom
Kyrgyzstan
The violent overthrow of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, president of Kyrgyzstan, in April 2010, followed by inter-ethnic clashes in June, produced a new security problem in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan, once prais
Environmental pressure, neoliberal reforms, and geopolitical competition in the Maghreb
Environmental challenges as a factor of security problems have entered mainstream discourse. Various international organisations have developed new instruments to look at the overlap between environmental problems and security threats. One such theatre of late has been the Maghreb, a sensitive region bordering the European Union. By looking at EU–Maghreb relations, this paper argues that, very often, environmental discourse is part of several oth…
The Origins and Trajectory of the Caucasian Conflicts
Conflicts in the Caucasus began as a result of the weakening of the institutions of the Soviet Union. Since then there have been some major transformations. Initially, there were ‘triangular conflicts' with the centre (Moscow) on the one side and two competing national projects on the other side (a Union Republic and a minority group with an autonomous status within this republic). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, these conflicts evolved i…
Karabakh conflict after Kosovo
A series of events in 2008 influenced the Karabakh conflict resolution efforts: the Kosovo declaration of independence, the August war, and Russian recognition of independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Two new diplomatic initiatives to resolve the Karabakh conflict were launched immediately after the August war, one by Russia and the second by Turkey. This article discusses why the two initiatives failed, and the structural problems of Karabakh …
Making states and breaking states
Two events in 2008 shaped the political map of the Caucasus: the West's decision on the independence of Kosovo and the Russo-Georgian War. First, on 17 February, Kosovo authorities unilaterally declared the independence of what was at the time a UN protectorate. This declaration enjoyed much support in the West, including near-immediate recognition by key states such as the US, Germany, France, the UK, and a dozen others. But it also faced strong…
Isis and the Killing Fields of the Middle East
ISIS has successfully linked jihadi ideology to sectarian division
The iron cage of liberalism
Journal Article The iron cage of liberalism: international politics and unarmed revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. By Daniel P. Ritter Get access The iron cage of liberalism: international politics and unarmed revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. By Daniel P. Ritter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. 288pp. £48.50. ISBN 978 0 19965 832 9. Available as e-book. Vicken Cheterian Vicken Cheterian 1Webster University, Sw…
Shattered dreams of revolution
Bedross Der Matossian brings a valuable contribution to our understanding of both modern revolutions and late Ottoman history. Shattered dreams of revolution provides a unique perspective on the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, which put an end to the long reign of the autocratic Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and marked the unravelling of the Ottoman empire. The book looks at the early revolutionary processes from the perspective of three ethno-religious gro…
The Last Closed Border of the Cold War
In the post-Soviet Caucasus, a number of borders remain blocked as a result of ethno-territorial conflicts that emerged in the early 1990s. Yet, there is one closed border that does not fit the pattern: the Turkish–Armenian border. This border has not been the site of any conflict in that period, and belongs to an entirely different geopolitical space: the border that previously separated the Soviet Union from Turkey, as well as independent Armen…
The poisoned well
Roger Hardy offers readers a historical narrative to explain the sources of violence and breakdown in the Middle East. In ten concise chapters, he provides a background reading of the period in between the defeat and dismantling of the Ottoman empire and the emergence of postwar independent states—such as Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and their neighbours—many of which are in their turn disintegrating in front of our eyes, unleashing endless violen…
The Armenians in modern Turkey
In her book, The Armenians in modern Turkey, Talin Suciyan sheds new light on the circumstances of the Armenian genocide survivors who remained inside Turkey, and had to live in an environment of denial. Not only did the Turkish state deny its act of genocide—and over a century later Ankara still refuses to take responsibility for the annihilation of Armenians and other Christian nations of Asia Minor—but also imposed this denialism on the remain…
The Uses and Abuses of History
Did the 1915 genocide of the Ottoman Armenians play a role in the genesis of the Karabakh war? In the early phase of the conflict, many Armenian activists and politicians drew parallels between the evolving struggles of the present and the traumatic events of 1915. This essay explores the ways in which Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey have referred to the events of 1915 to formulate their policies towards the conflict. The essay argues that the lar…
Diverses recensions
Plus que d'une tude scientifique au sens strict, l'ouvrage de Monique Slodzian relve de l'essai critique, marqu par une libert de ton surprenante, qui tourne parfois la fronde, voire au manifeste. Sa principale qualit est sans doute de mettre en lumire de jeunes crivains russes assez peu connus en Occident, bien que leurs oeuvres soient de plus en plus traduites : Zakhar Prilepine, Sergue Chargounov, Guerman Sadoulaev, Roman Sentchine, Mikhal Eli…
Isis genocide against the Yazidis and mass violence in the Middle East
The mass violence inflicted by the radical Islamist fighters of the ‘Islamic State’ organization on the Yazidi population of Iraq is the latest of modern genocides. The violence has placed this little known but ancient community of the Middle East at the centre of international attention, triggering direct international intervention in the fight against ISIS. This article aims to study the motives of ISIS in attacking the Kurds of northern Iraq a…
Framing Sectarianism in the Middle East
This paper argues that a long view perspective of contemporary sectarianism between Sunni and Shia Islam in the Middle East could be read on the background of earlier forms of sectarianism going back to the 19th and 20th century history of the region. Such an approach would disentangle sectarianism from primordial narratives as an intrinsic problem of Islam going back to the early schism of the 7th century and place it in social formations and so…
Relations Russie-Turquie
Un facteur important qui a décidé du sort de la seconde guerre du Haut-Karabakh a été l’intervention, ou la non-intervention, de puissances extérieures. Alors que de nombreux analystes s’attendaient à un rôle actif de la Russie pour défendre son allié nominal, l’Arménie, les dirigeants russes ont préféré adopter le rôle de médiateur entre les parties belligérantes, malgré l’intervention directe de l’armée turque dans les opérations militaires aze…
Friend and Foe
The interaction between Russia and Turkey since 2015 suggests a new quality in foreign affairs combining tactical alliance and strategic competition. The Russian invasion of Ukraine did not change this. By studying the cases of Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh, we observe not only elements of geopolitical competition and cooperation but also that the combination of the two contradictory approaches in foreign affairs created new opportunities be…
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan
In 2020, the Azerbaijani army launched a massive attack on Armenian positions in Nagorno-Karabakh. After 44 days of fighting, Azerbaijan scored a major victory, forcing Armenian forces to retreat from the territories around Karabakh, followed by the deployment of Russian peacekeeping troops. While many analysts have focused on advanced technology to explain Azerbaijan’s victory, this article argues that a comparative study of the First Karabakh W…
Political science (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · History (11 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · History (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (7 works)