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Protests in Yerevan
Armenia’s Crisis of Legitimacy

Sargsyan’s resignation may not suffice to address the long-brewing anger against Armenia’s establishment—nor resolve the country’s main geopolitical conundrum.

Published on: April 26, 2018
Svante E. Cornell is Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and a co-founder of the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. He is the author, with S. Frederick Starr, of The Long Game on the Silk Road: U.S. and EU Strategy for Central Asia and the Caucasus (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
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