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050		4	_aHC415.17 .G437 2018
082	0		_a947.56086
100	1		_aGhaplanyan, Irina.
245	1	0	_aPost-Soviet Armenia : _bThe New National Elite and the New National Narrative.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aOxford : _bTaylor & Francis Group, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2018.
300			_a1 online resource (283 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
505	0		_aCover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Setting the stage -- What, why and how? -- Research question -- Why Armenia? -- Empirical significance -- Theoretical relevance -- Conceptual framework -- Elites and elite formations -- The role of elites in constructing a nationally significant narrative -- Methodology -- Book outline -- Chapter organization -- Notes -- 2 Armenia's political elites? -- Introduction -- Elite? -- Armenian political elites: historical shortcut -- A look into Armenian nobility -- Political leadership of the First Republic -- The partocratic elite of Soviet Armenia -- Conceptualizing elite transformation -- Identifying elites -- Classics -- Other schools -- Post-Soviet elite conceptualization -- New Armenia, new elites? -- Circulation or reproduction, transformation or continuity -- Profiling Ter-Petrosyan's elites: ex-Soviet nomenklatura, former Soviet dissidents and representatives of the Diaspora, 1991-8 -- Profiling Kocharyan's elites: NK war veterans, Soviet- and Western-educated technocrats, Diaspora representatives and oligarchs, 1998-2008 -- Profiling Sargsyan's elites: political nomads, 2008-16 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Constructing and deconstructing the national narrative -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing national identity and national interest -- Constructing the concepts: the role of elites -- Armenian 'imagined community' -- Across the millennia -- Soviet 'acculturation' -- The nation state or nation and state? -- Ter-Petrosyan's nation building: concessions vs. survival -- Kocharyan's state building narrative: 'embracing survival' -- Sargsyan: reimagining the imagined? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The nerve of Armenian politics: Nagorno-Karabakh -- Introduction -- From Arran to the Black Garden -- War and independence.
505	8		_aOver- or under-securitization? -- Ter-Petrosyan: the cost of the presidential chair -- Kocharyan: moving Stepanakert to Yerevan -- Sargsyan: more talks, fewer results -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Turkey: confronting the past, surviving the present -- Introduction -- Ottoman Armenians: a stateless nation -- Genocide: survival and identity reinforcement -- Soviet-Turkish courtship -- Surviving or embracing the present? -- Ter-Petrosyan: 'no eternal enemies' -- Kocharyan: a permanent 'the other' -- Sargsyan: the in-between -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Diaspora: Armenia's failed marriage -- Introduction -- Diaspora: a reimagined community -- Armenians: a diaspora nation -- Myth and reality of the homeland -- Ter-Petrosyan's underestimation -- Kocharyan's 'cash cow' -- Sargsyan's carrots and sticks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Zero axes -- Introduction: between East and West -- The love affair with Russia -- The West: restrained desire -- The camaraderie with Iran -- The significant insignificance of Georgia -- Joggling between the axes -- Ter-Petrosyan's pro-Westernism and 'balancing' -- Kocharyan's pro-Russian 'complementarity' -- Sargsyan's pro-Armenian 'zero axis' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Conclusion -- Introduction -- Research -- Findings -- Viable conceptualizations -- Challenges -- What next? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix I: Contacted and interviewed politicians -- Appendix II: Interview questions -- Appendix III: Post-independence Armenia timeline -- Index.
520			_aThe book examines the importance of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan, considers the impact of fraught relations with Turkey and the impact of relations with other neighbouring states including Russia, and discusses the poorly-developed role of the very large Armenian diaspora.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aArmenia (Republic)-Social conditions-21st century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aGhaplanyan, Irina _tPost-Soviet Armenia _dOxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2017 _z9781138240711
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aBASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5119208 _zClick to View
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