Featured Speakers:
Eduard Abrahamyan
Date: Sunday March 12, 2026
12:00 PM EST | 9:00 AM PST
Location:
Online - Live on Zoom and Youtube
Watch with NAASR YouTube Channel
Dr. Eduard Abrahamyan will offer an in-depth investigation of the contemporary geopolitics of the Caucasus through a multi-level analysis of regional political transformations. It delves into the contrasting foreign policies of small states in the Caucasus in response to the Russian interventions in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, which marked Russia’s “return” as an order-forming power, challenging the agenda of Euro-Atlantic integration.
Abrahamyan’s work enriches the emerging discourse on the regional complexities of the multipolar world order with multifaceted interpretations of politics and decision-making through its nuanced regional focus and innovative theoretical grounding and contributes significantly to International Relations theory, geopolitics, small-states and area studies, offering invaluable insights into small-state foreign policy dynamics in the age of rising confrontational multipolarity
Dr. Eduard Abrahamyan is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Analysis (Armenia) and Postgraduate Teaching Fellow at University College London (UK). He previously served as Teaching Fellow at the University of Leicester (UK) from 2021 to 2022, where he received his doctorate in politics and international relations in 2023. From 2019 to 2021, Dr. Abrahamyan served as aide to the President of the Republic of Armenia on foreign affairs. In 2017, he was Rumsfeld Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of the American Foreign Policy Council
Sponsored by:
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues