The ARARAT Center for Strategic Research is a leading Armenian think tank on security issues. It was founded in August 2006 and is led by a Yerevan-based historian and political scientist Dr Armen Ayvazyan ( official website of Dr Armen Ayvazyan).

Role

The ARARAT Center positions itself as a home-grown, politically unaffiliated academic research center working to leave a solid footprint on the path to establishing an independent national school of strategic thought, as its focal long-term objective.

The Center aims primarily at:

1. analyzing the international political developments affecting Armenia's interests, thus
2. identifying the national security threats and needs, and
3. making its analyses of use to the decision makers as well as the Armenian public at large.

Research

The Center specializes in research into Armenia's geopolitics, military history, identity and much more. Its website offers bulk of information - in-depth research, analyses and data - on the Armenian-Turkish conflict, Artsakh

Artsakh

Artsakh was the tenth province of the Kingdom of Armenia from 189 BC until 387 AD and afterwards a region of Caucasian Albania from 387 to the 7th century. From the 7th to 9th centuries, it fell under Arab control...

 (Nagorno Karabakh), Javakhk

Javakhk

Javakhk was a historical region of Kingdom of Armenia and a canton of Gugark province . It is currently located in the territory of modern Georgia roughly corresponding to the Javakheti region.-Antiquity:...

, Information Warfare

Information warfare

The term Information Warfare is primarily an American concept involving the use and management of information technology in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent...

, National Identity and the related fields.

Publications

PRO-PATRIA is one of the most exclusive and sought-out works published by the Center. Released within 2006-2007, "Pro-Patria" is two-volume publication series of selected studies with analyses and facts on strategy and security, compiled and edited by the Head of the Center Dr. Armen Ayvazyan.

• "The Liberated Territory of Armenia and the Settlement of The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict" (Pro-Patria, Volume I, 2006)
• "Studies on Strategy and Security" (Pro-Patria, Volume II, 2007)
• Other publications

Resources

Most of the Center's publications are available electronically from its website. Additionally, the Center offers a newly-established online library of related literature.