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Armenia’s Populist Foreign Policy-Making Process Between 2018 and 2020: Navigating Volonté Générale and War

The European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) released its new analysis titled “Armenia’s Populist Foreign Policy-Making Process Between 2018 and 2020: Navigating Volonté Générale and War”.

The paper is co-authored by Dr. Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, ENC Academic Council Member, Associate Researcher and Associate Professor at Rabdan Academy, and Dr. Hovhannes Nikoghosyan, Adjunct Lecturer at American University of Armenia.

In this ENC Analysis, the authors discuss the leadership of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other government institutions, such as the National Security Council,  in the foreign policy-making process of Armenia between 2018 and 2020, around the question of “How has the foreign policy-making style of a populist leader in Armenia affected the Foreign Policy Decision Making (FPDM) process, and what have been ‘the resultants’ of those processes?”.

The full analysis is available here.