Vicken Cheterian
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The “Great War” which did not end in the East
If you ask me whether there is a link between the deportees walking in the hot summer of 1915 in the Syrian desert southwards, and the refugees of 2012 escaping barrel-bombs northwards, I would intuitively say yes, there should be one, but as a historian I would say “we don’t know”. We, historians, simply did not pose this question.
7 November 2018
Cambodia: Is Justice Possible After Genocide?
In Cambodia I often heard that the particularity of the Cambodian genocide is the fact that “they killed their own people”. They mean by it that Khmer Rouge killed their ethnic kin, other Khmer.
28 September 2018
Nikol Pashinyan: The Revolutionary and the Prime Minister
27 June 2018
Armenia’s First Republic: A Nation’s Last Resort for Survival
29 May 2018
Armenia’s Happy Revolution: What Comes Next?
7 May 2018
Siege of Ghouta
6 April 2018
Russia’s Geopolitical Election
13 March 2018
In Syria, Russia, Turkey and the others
25 January 2018
Iranian Surprise
4 January 2018
The lost magic of the revolutionary idea
7 December 2017
Armenians in Middle Eastern Wars: From “Positive Neutrality” to “Impossible Neutrality”
In Lebanon and Syria, Armenian community leaders declared their neutrality. Yet the outcome was very different.
8 November 2017
Turkish Military in Idlib against Kurds or Jihadis?
19 October 2017
Azerbaijan’s Corruption without Borders
5 October 2017
Perpetual Failure of Middle Eastern Revolutions
14 September 2017
Utopia Undermined by anti-Terror Wars
2 August 2017
When Turkey Seizes what remains of Assyrian Property
5 July 2017
When Kurds Draw the Map of the Middle East
1 June 2017
“Islam is the solution!” Or Is it?
4 May 2017
When Erdogan points his finger to Germany’s Nazi past
5 April 2017
Lessons from Halabja
16 March 2017
Trump, Tweets and the Middle East
1 March 2017
Syrian Rebels Unite … To Fight Each Other
1 February 2017
Putin’s victories
12 January 2017
Syria Polarized, Syria Polarizing
29 December 2016
Fall of East Aleppo
14 December 2016
Worried about Turkey
30 November 2016
US Elections and US
20 October 2016
What did Russia lose in Syria?
5 October 2016
The Armenian Diaspora and its future
22 September 2016
Karimov is dead. Long live Karimov!
7 September 2016
25 Years After the Soviet Collapse: A Failed Coup that Changed Our World
24 August 2016
Who remembers the Yazidis?
Yazidis feel wounded and betrayed. They were attacked by their neighbouring Arab tribes, abandoned to their fate by the Kurdish Peshmerga, and forgotten by the rest of “international community.” A religion, civilization and a unique way of life that survived for centuries, will it survive ISIS genocide?
13 July 2016