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Vicken Cheterian
Policy Papers
Academic Articles
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Policy Articles

  “Jordan, Environment and Security”
by Vicken Cheterian, Zoi Report, 1/2011
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  The Arab Revolt: Roots and Perspectives
by Vicken Cheterian, GCSP Policy Papers, February 2011
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Shifting Bases, Shifting Perils - A Scoping Study on Security Implications of Climate in the OSCE Region and Beyond.
by Achim Maas, Chad Briggs, Vicken Cheterian, Kerstin Fritzsche, Bernice Lee, Cleo Paskal, Dennis Tänzler and Alexander Carius. Adelphi Research in cooperation with Chatham House and CIMERA. Berlin 2010.
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Environment and Security Issues in the Southern Mediterranean Region
Vicken Cheterian (CIMERA), in partnership with OSCE,
UNU, UNEP/GRID, Zoi, Geneva, 2009, 50 pages,
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Environment and Security, Transforming Risk into Cooperation, The Case of Eastern Europe, Belarus Moldova - Ukraine
Published by UNEP, UNDP, OSCE, and NATO
Aleh Cherp (lead author, Lund University, Lund and Central European University, Budapest),
Alexios Antypas (Central European University, Budapest),
Vicken Cheterian (CIMERA, Geneva),
Mykhaylo Salnykov (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby);
Geneva, 2007
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"l'Asie centrale brule-t-elle?"
Vicken Cheterian, Politique Internationale, Sumer 2005, pages 377-396
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Environment and Security, Transforming Risks into Cooperation: The Case of the South Caucasus,
Published by: UNEP, UNDP, OSCE

Vicken Cheterian, Jean Radvanyi et. al., 2004
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Academic Articles

“Politics of Media Management in the Three Maghreb Countries: Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia”, in Media, Migration and Public Opinion,
Vicken Cheterian, Ivan Ureta (ed.), Peter Lang, Bern, 2011, pages 25-48:
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"Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia’s Island of Instability"
Vicken Cheterian, Survival, Vol. 52, No.5, September 2010, pp. 21-27.
"Environmental Pressure, Neoliberal Reforms, and Geopolitical Competition in the Maghreb"
Vicken Cheterian, Journal of North African Studies, in vol. 15, issue 2, June 2010, pp. 255-264.
"Azerbaijan", in Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Abel Polese (eds.), The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics
Vicken Cheterian, Routledge, pp. 101-117, 2010.
Histoire, mémoire et relations internationals: la diaspora arménienne et les relations arméno-turques
Vicken Cheterian, Relations Internationales, No. 141, 2010, pp. 7-24.
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"Colour Revolutions and the Media: Where is the Scoop?" in Media, Democracy and Freedom
Vicken Cheterian, The Post-Communist Experience, Marta Dyczok and Oxana Gaman-Golutvina (eds.), Peter Lang, Bern 2009, pp. 205-230:
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"From Reform and Transition to 'Coloured Revolutions'"
The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Volume 25, June-September 2009, Numbers 2-3, pages 136-160:
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"The August 2008 war in Georgia: from ethnic conflict to border wars"
Vicken Cheterian, Central Asian Survey, Volume 28, Number 2, June 2009, pp. 155-170:
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"Georgia's Rose Revolution: Change or Repetition? Tension between State-Building and Modernization Projects"
Vicken Cheterian, Nationalities Papers, Volume 36, Issue 4, September 2008 , pages 689 712
 
The Reshaping of a Borderland Region
Vicken Cheterian, in The Illusions of Transition CIMERA, Geneva, 2004
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The Arab Media Coverage of the Iraqi War: The Challenge of the New Arab Media
Vicken Cheterian, Yerevan, Apil 10, 2003
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Little Wars and a Great Game: Local Conflicts and International Competition in the Caucasus, published by the Swiss Peace Foundation, Berne
Vicken Cheterian (2001)
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The Russian Military in the Second Chechen War: Revenge of the Army or a Putsch in the Making? Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, 64
Vicken Cheterian (1999)
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Oil and American Policy Toward the Caspian Region, in: Alain Joxe and Elie Kheir (eds.), Power Projections and Broken Down Peace Processes, CIPRES, Paris
Vicken Cheterian (1998)
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Dialectics of the Ethnic Conflicts and Oil Projects in the Caucasus, PSIS Occasional Paper, 1
Vicken Cheterian (1997)
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The Caspian: Sea or Lake, a Major Issue for Russia,
CEMOTI, 23
Vicken Cheterian (1997)
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Journalistic Articles

 
  “Syria’s broken Spring: A Damascus Report”
Vicken Cheterian, OpenDemocracy, June 22, 2011:
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  دمشق وحلب لم تنضما الى «الثورة»... لكن صوت النظام فيهما صار ضعيفاً (Arabic : Damascus and Aleppo did not join the ‘revolution’… but the voice of the regime became weaker)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, June 10, 2011:
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  “Loyale Damaszener”
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 18, 2011.
  “Suriye kırsalı yanıyor başkent neden sakin?”
Vicken Cheterian, Agos (in Turkish), June 10, 2011.
  “Eine menschengemachte Wüste namens Aral”
Vicken Cheterian, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 24, 2011.
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  “Ermenistan’da üç liderli bir oyun”
Vicken Cheterian, Agos, May 20, 2011.
  قرغيزستان: التوتر العرقي يجهِض مفاعيل الثورة... وعجز دولي عن المساعدة (Arabic: Kyrgyzstan: Ethnic tension aborts revolutions impact... and international incapacity to help)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, April 17, 2011:
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  !سنة على التغيير في قرغيزستان: فوضى وعنف وثورة مستمرة ... الى الوراء (Arabic: A year after change in Kyrgyzstan: Anarchy, violence and continuous revolution... backwards!)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, April 10, 2011:
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  The Arab revolt and the colour revolutions
Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy, March 10, 2011:
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  الغرب والثورة العربية (Arabic: Arab Revolution and the West)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, March 8, 2011
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  الثورات الملونة أقرب الى «ثورات» العرب ... من حدث الـ «89» الأوروبي (Arabic: Colour Revolutions closer to Arab “Revolutions”... Than the ‘89’ European Event)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, February 22, 2011
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  Ein braunes Rinsal and der Taufstätte Jesu, Der Jordan führt nur noch wenig Wasser bis ins Tote Meer
Vicken Cheterian, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 8, 2011
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  The Arab Crisis: Food, water, energy, justice
Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy, January 26, 2011
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  الجوع يهدّد العالم العربي... والإجراءات القصيرة المدى لن تنجب استقراراً (Arabic: Hunger threatens the Arab World… and short term mesures will not bring stability)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, January 21, 2011
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  البحر الميت يحتضر وعلاجه الوحيد قناة من البحر الأحمر... لكن الأكلاف مرتفعة (Arabic: The Dead Sea is Dying and the only solution is a canal from Red Sea... at high cost)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, December 23, 2010
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Armenia-Turkey protocols: A year on
Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy, October 20, 2010
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خطوات تركية متعثرة ولكن ايجابية... نحو المصالحة مع أرمينيا (Arabic: Turkish Positive but Contradictory Steps... Towards Reconciliation with Armenia)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, October 3, 2010
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The hollow at the Heart of Central Asia
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde diplomatique, English edition, September 2010
العِبر من حرب آب الروسية - الجورجية: حدث أساسي أم هامش في التاريخ؟ (Arabic: The lessons from Russia-Georgia August War: A key Event or a Footnote of History?”)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, August 17, 2020
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Drohen uns «Klimakriege»?
Vicken Cheterian, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 22, 2010
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حروب المناخ: الدورات الطبيعية المتغيّرة قد تتسبب في نزاعات بين العرب (Arabic : Climate Wars : Changing Natural Cycles As Cause of Conflict among Arabs)
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, June 29, 2010
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Crise d’identité chez les islamistes jordaniens
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde Diplomatique, May 2010
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Révolution sociale au Kirgizstan?
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde Diplomatique, May 2010
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روسيا تهدّئ الوضع في الشيشان... وتخلّ باستقرار شمال القوقاز
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, May 16, 2010
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Le de'bat sur le ge'nocide arme'nien est un enjeu politique majeur
Vicken Cheterian, Le Temps, April 26, 2010
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Armenian genocide and Turkey: Then and Now
Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy, April 24, 2010
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"الجدل حول الإبادة الجماعية الأرمنية سياسي وليس فقط تاريخياً"
Vicken Cheterian, Al-Hayat, April 19, 2010
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"Armenia-Turkey : Genocide, Bloskade, Diplomacy"
Vicken Cheterian, OpenDemocracy, October 13, 2009
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"Vers une normalisation des relations turco-armeniennes ?"
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde Diplomatique, October 9, 2009
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"The View from Armenia"
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde Diplomatique (English edition): August 27, 2009
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"Georgia: Between War and a Future"
Vicken Cheterian, OpenDemocracy, July 8, 2009
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"Cinq jours qui ont fait trembler le Caucase"
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Avril 2009
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"Relations publiques ou diplomatie?"
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Avril 2009
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"Et l'Irak accouche d'une nouvelle generation de djihadistes"
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Decembre 2008
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"Desarroi des militants au Liban"
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Decembre 2008
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"The Kocharian Legacy: Turbulent Beginning, Violent End"
Alexander Iskandaryan and Vicken Cheterian, AGBU Magazin, November 1, 2008
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"Georgia's forgotten legacy"
Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy, September 3, 2008
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"Eine gemeinsame Geschichte schreiben"
Vicken Cheterian, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, March 13, 2008
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Armenia's election: the waiting game
Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy, February 19, 2008
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Neues Scheitern des politischen Systems in Libanon
Vicken Cheterian, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, October 10, 2007
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Lebanon: short memory, system failure
Vicken Cheterian, OpenDemocracy, September 29, 2007
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Al-Kaidas nachste Generation
Vicken Cheterian, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, August 2, 2007
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Georgia's Arms Race
Vicken Cheterian, OpenDemocracy, July 4, 2007
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Detonant cocktail des revolutionnaires georgiens
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde diplomatique, July 2007
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Escalade militaire dans le Caucase
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde diplomatique, July 2007
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L'appareil et les oligarques dirigent l'Armenie
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde diplomatique, May 15, 2007-06-01
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Wahlsieg der etablierten Krafte in Armenien
Vicken Cheterian, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, May 13, 2007-06-01
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Serbia After Kosovo
Vicken Cheterian, OpenDemocracy, 18 April, 2007
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Crise Politique en Ukraine
Vicken Cheterian, La valise diplomatique, 4 April, 2007
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Histoire Mouvementee du Caucase
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde diplomatique, February 2007
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The pigeon sacrificed: Hrant Dink, and a broken dialogue
Vicken Cheterian, OpenDemocracy, 23 January, 2007
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Qui a tue Hrant Dink ?
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde diplomatique, January 23, 2007
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La revolution orange perd ses couleurs
Vicken Cheterian, Le Monde diplomatique, September 2006
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Pourquoi l'Azerbaidjan n'a pas bascule
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, February 2006

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Revolutions en trompe-l'?il a l'Est
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, October 2005

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Bain de sang en Ouzbekistan
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, October 2005

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Washington, Moscou, Pekin : le grand jeu
Vicken Cheterian March, 2005

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L'Asie centrale entre nationalisme et islamisme
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2005

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Entre nationalisme et islamisme
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2005

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The Sudden power of the media
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, German edition, February 2005

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Entre Union europeenne, OTAN et Russie :
Vicken Cheterian Le Pendule Ukrainien, Le Monde Diplomatique, October 2004

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Releve de generation dans le sud du Caucase
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, January 2004

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  La diaspora armenienne revient a la maison
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, January 2004

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  Revolution georgienne entre deux grandes puissances
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, 28 November 2003

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  La Russie eclatera-t-elle ?
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2003

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 Georgian upheaval puts local media to the test
Vicken Cheterian MediaChannel.org-Online, 25.11.2003

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 L'Asie centrale, base arriere americaine
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde diplomatique, in French, February 2003

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 La Russie s'enlise en Tchetchenie
Vicken Cheterian Le Monde Diplomatique, Mars 2002

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 Georgien: Die Spur der Waldbrüder, Zeuseln in Abchasien, Kampf um die Staatsmacht
Vicken Cheterian WoZ-Online, 8.11.2001

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 Politics of Compromise: The Tajikistan Peace Process
Reviewed by Vicken Cheterian in Transitions Online

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 Stampede for oil, rise of Islamic militants transforming Central Asian republics
Vicken Cheterian at CNN Interactive

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 L'étoile montante ouzbèke
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2001
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 Du Golfe à la Chine, des conflits à haut risque
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2001
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 Le nouveau «Grand Jeu»
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2001
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Media and Democracy in Armenia,
Medien und Demokratie in Armenien

Vicken Cheterian in: Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz, no.112, (2001)
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L'armée russe en quête de réformes.
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2000
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Where is Juma Namangani? Islamist Rebels in Central Asia
Vicken Cheterian in: Eurasianet, July 2000
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Kyrgyzstan between elections: times of trouble
Vicken Cheterian in: Eurasianet, June 2000
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Der zweite Tschetschenien-Krieg als Preis fur politisches Versagen
Vicken Cheterian FriZ, 3/2000

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Succession ouverte en Azerbaïdjan,
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, October 1999
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La vallée de Ferghana, coeur divisé de l'Asie centrale
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, May 1999
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Ethnic Conflict in Georgia
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, December 1998
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Réformes et modernisation laissent la Russie exsangue.
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, July 1998
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Jostling for Oil in Transcaucasia
Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Diplomatique, October 1997
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Georgia's Balancing Act
Vicken Cheterian in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 1997
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Les ambitions contrariées de l'Ouzbékistan
(Uzbekistan’s regional policy)

Vicken Cheterian in: Le Monde Dipomatique, July 1997
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