The limits of Armenia’s complementarian foreign policy: an analysis in the context of the South Caucasus’ shifting geopolitical realities

Santolini, Michele (A.A. 2024/2025) The limits of Armenia’s complementarian foreign policy: an analysis in the context of the South Caucasus’ shifting geopolitical realities. Tesi di Laurea in Comparative history of political systems, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Giovanni Orsina, pp. 99. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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Abstract/Index

The origins of Armenia’s foreign policy, a history-embedded trajectory. The roots of the special relationship: from invitation to alignment. Soviet Armenia: the special relationship in the context of an affirmative action empire. Apricot socialism as the foundation of Armenian foreign policy. Nagorno-Karabakh: the main prism of the Armenian identitarian revival. Ter-Petrosyan’s mandate and the vulnerability of the Armenian way to multivectorialism. Between Russia and the West, the curse of identity politics and securitization. A methodological premise: between foreign-policy analysis and neo-realist balancing. A review of complementarism as Armenia’s strategic compass through the lens of FPA. The domestic dimension: memory diplomacy and strategic culture. The external dimension: foreign powers’ activism vis-à-vis complementarism. The war in Ukraine as an epiphany: evidence of limitation and quest for re-shape. Unmasking uni-vectorial reliance on Russia and the reverberations of Ukraine on the Caucasus. The velvet revolution against self-reinforcing trends. Kazakhstan as the antithesis of the Armenian case. Complex rebound: Pashinyan’s attempts towards neo-complementarianism and alternative partnerships.

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Bibliografia: pp. 88-99.

Thesis Type: Master's Degree Thesis
Institution: Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program: Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree Program in International Relations (LM-52)
Chair: Comparative history of political systems
Thesis Supervisor: Orsina, Giovanni
Thesis Co-Supervisor: De Stefano, Carolina
Academic Year: 2024/2025
Session: Autumn
Deposited by: Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited: 26 Feb 2026 14:08
Last Modified: 26 Feb 2026 14:08
URI: https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/44987

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