دانلود کتاب Post-Soviet Armenia: The New National Elite and the New National Narrative

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Cover
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
Over- 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