Levon Hovsepyan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Levon Hovsepyan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Levon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hovsepyan |
| SIGNATURE | HOVSEPYAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yerevan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7888-9597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Turkey’s assertive turn in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Unlike the early 1990s, when Ankara refrained from direct military involvement in the Nagorno-Karabakh war, in 2020 Turkey played a pivotal role in securing Azerbaijan’s military victory. Thus, the earlier cautious posturing gave way to strategic assertiveness. This study examines the domestic-level factors that enabled Turkey’s assertive engagement in the conflict with an unprecedented degree of power projection. By looking into the evolution of…
Beyond the ‘big brother – little brother’ paradigm
Famously known as ‘one nation, two states’, the Turkish-Azerbaijani relationship has traditionally been viewed as asymmetric, with Turkey being the dominant actor. Although grounded in the history of bilateral relations and disproportionate military, economic, and diplomatic power and concomitant regional influence, the asymmetry has not always guaranteed Turkey an upper hand over Azerbaijan. To account for a more accurate explanation of the outc…
Beyond the Islamic State and Kurdish threat
Sustaining conflict
This article analyzes the continuation of anti-Armenian sentiments and irredentist narratives in post-2020 Azerbaijan through the lens of the Ontological Security Concept. Despite achieving military gains and territorial control in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s national identity construction policy continues to rely on portraying Armenians as the primary ‘Other’. This study highlights how persistent conflict, state rhetoric, and redefined pseudo…
From alliance to 'soft conquest
Military cooperation has been one of the milestones in Turkish-Azerbaijani relations since the early 1990s. A qualitatively new phase began in 2010 after the signing of the strategic agreement which not only fixed the ʹcasus foederisʹ clause but also significantly increased the scope and volume of cooperation. Military cooperation underwent a qualitative change and Turkeyʹs participation in the modernization of the Azerbaijani army gained key imp…
Erdoğan’s engineering in the Turkish Armed Forces
During the AKP rule the military was deprived of its traditional dominant positions and levers in the social and political domains. Being deprived of its institutional autonomy, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) went through transformations, in which the institutional identity and value system of the military were scrutinized. The article aims to reveal the transformation trends of the TAF’s identity and to represent the narratives and manifestation…
The Main Factors Underpinning Turkey–China Relations
This article analyses how shifts in the international system and Turkish domestic factors determine the current relations between Turkey and China. They are combined with changes in the international system and Turkish domestic economic, political and ideological factors. The Uyghur issue, Turkey’s new activism in Central Asia, and the ‘Turkic narrative’ are analysed in the context of bilateral relations. The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War brought the…
The influence of Turkish domestic transformations on Turkish–U.S. relations
Turkish-US relations in the last decade have been marked by tensions, crises and mutual distrust, which is unprecedented in the framework of bilateral relations. Besides international systemic variables, domestic ones are also crucial in Turkey’s current foreign policy. Therefore, in order to fully consider the ongoing transformations in the field of foreign policy and for a more comprehensive coverage of the existing tensions in Turkish-American…
From alliance to 'soft conquest
Military cooperation has been one of the milestones in Turkish-Azerbaijani relations since the early 1990s. A qualitatively new phase began in 2010 after the signing of the strategic agreement which not only fixed the ʹcasus foederisʹ clause but also significantly increased the scope and volume of cooperation. Military cooperation underwent a qualitative change and Turkeyʹs participation in the modernization of the Azerbaijani army gained key imp…
Erdoğan’s engineering in the Turkish Armed Forces
During the AKP rule the military was deprived of its traditional dominant positions and levers in the social and political domains. Being deprived of its institutional autonomy, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) went through transformations, in which the institutional identity and value system of the military were scrutinized. The article aims to reveal the transformation trends of the TAF’s identity and to represent the narratives and manifestation…
The Main Factors Underpinning Turkey–China Relations
This article analyses how shifts in the international system and Turkish domestic factors determine the current relations between Turkey and China. They are combined with changes in the international system and Turkish domestic economic, political and ideological factors. The Uyghur issue, Turkey’s new activism in Central Asia, and the ‘Turkic narrative’ are analysed in the context of bilateral relations. The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War brought the…
The influence of Turkish domestic transformations on Turkish–U.S. relations
Turkish-US relations in the last decade have been marked by tensions, crises and mutual distrust, which is unprecedented in the framework of bilateral relations. Besides international systemic variables, domestic ones are also crucial in Turkey’s current foreign policy. Therefore, in order to fully consider the ongoing transformations in the field of foreign policy and for a more comprehensive coverage of the existing tensions in Turkish-American…
The influence of Turkish domestic transformations on Turkish–U.S. relations
Turkish-US relations in the last decade have been marked by tensions, crises and mutual distrust, which is unprecedented in the framework of bilateral relations. Besides international systemic variables, domestic ones are also crucial in Turkey’s current foreign policy. Therefore, in order to fully consider the ongoing transformations in the field of foreign policy and for a more comprehensive coverage of the existing tensions in Turkish-American…
Erdoğan’s engineering in the Turkish Armed Forces
During the AKP rule the military was deprived of its traditional dominant positions and levers in the social and political domains. Being deprived of its institutional autonomy, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) went through transformations, in which the institutional identity and value system of the military were scrutinized. The article aims to reveal the transformation trends of the TAF’s identity and to represent the narratives and manifestation…
The Main Factors Underpinning Turkey–China Relations
This article analyses how shifts in the international system and Turkish domestic factors determine the current relations between Turkey and China. They are combined with changes in the international system and Turkish domestic economic, political and ideological factors. The Uyghur issue, Turkey’s new activism in Central Asia, and the ‘Turkic narrative’ are analysed in the context of bilateral relations. The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War brought the…
From alliance to 'soft conquest
Military cooperation has been one of the milestones in Turkish-Azerbaijani relations since the early 1990s. A qualitatively new phase began in 2010 after the signing of the strategic agreement which not only fixed the ʹcasus foederisʹ clause but also significantly increased the scope and volume of cooperation. Military cooperation underwent a qualitative change and Turkeyʹs participation in the modernization of the Azerbaijani army gained key imp…
Beyond the Islamic State and Kurdish threat
Sustaining conflict
This article analyzes the continuation of anti-Armenian sentiments and irredentist narratives in post-2020 Azerbaijan through the lens of the Ontological Security Concept. Despite achieving military gains and territorial control in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s national identity construction policy continues to rely on portraying Armenians as the primary ‘Other’. This study highlights how persistent conflict, state rhetoric, and redefined pseudo…
Turkey’s assertive turn in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Unlike the early 1990s, when Ankara refrained from direct military involvement in the Nagorno-Karabakh war, in 2020 Turkey played a pivotal role in securing Azerbaijan’s military victory. Thus, the earlier cautious posturing gave way to strategic assertiveness. This study examines the domestic-level factors that enabled Turkey’s assertive engagement in the conflict with an unprecedented degree of power projection. By looking into the evolution of…
Beyond the ‘big brother – little brother’ paradigm
Famously known as ‘one nation, two states’, the Turkish-Azerbaijani relationship has traditionally been viewed as asymmetric, with Turkey being the dominant actor. Although grounded in the history of bilateral relations and disproportionate military, economic, and diplomatic power and concomitant regional influence, the asymmetry has not always guaranteed Turkey an upper hand over Azerbaijan. To account for a more accurate explanation of the outc…
Turkey's Politics and Society (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · European Politics and Security (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (4 works) · Turkish (4 works) · Islam (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)