No. 108: Protests in Armenia: The Domestic Dimension

Author(s): Mikayel Zolyan, Anahit Shirinyan
Series Editor(s): Lusine Badalyan (Special Editor), Lusine Badalyan, Bruno De Cordier, Farid Guliyev, Diana Lezhava, Lili Di Puppo, Jeronim Perović, Abel Polese, Licínia Simão, Koba Turmanidze
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC-Georgia); Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2019

This issue of the CAD focuses on the domestic dimension of the 2018 Armenian revolution. More specifically, Mikayel Zolyan first explains what made the Armenian revolution possible, arguing that a key factor was how the political regime gravitated towards authoritarian rule in a way that deprived it of the flexibility necessary for survival. Anahit Shirinyan then looks at how the revolution exposed the extent to which Armenia’s political parties had lost touch with the public and explores the country’s new political party system.

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