Comparing the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh to the 2008 Georgia-Russian War shows a pattern of receding western influence, offensives at key US elections and the need for independent investigation of war crimes.
How did the first generation of Arab jihadists lead the way to today’s Islamists? A book review.
Khmer Rouge mass killings were followed by cynical geopolitics. By the time justice took the stand, was it also impossible?
A visit to the Khmer Rouge's death chamber seeds reflection on past and present alike.
The violence and polarisation of Syria's long war can induce paralysis of the mind. Only a polity based on law and justice can break the cycle.
25 years ago, an attempted takeover by communist hardliners led to the Soviet Union's collapse. The reverberations still continue.
A hundred years after the Ottoman genocide, Armenia is turning the page on a dark century and looking outwards. When will Turkey?
Washington's confused actions over Syria are a textbook case of strategic failure, says Vicken Cheterian.
The EHCR has upheld the right of the Turkish politician Dogu Perincek to deny the Armenian genocide. It's a bad decision with dangerous implications.
The EHCR has upheld the right of the Turkish politician Dogu Perincek to deny the Armenian genocide. It's a bad decision with dangerous implications.
The experience of the late-Ottoman revolt of 1908 is relevant to the cycle of uprising and violence in the region today.
A century after the genocide of the Ottoman Armenians, Vicken Cheterian goes in search of its living traces on the modern borderlands where Turkey, Syria and Lebanon meet.