The Minsk Dialogue Rule is a simple principle: two people who already agree with each other should not enter the same discussion room. If they do — they just create another echo chamber. Following this rule, the podcast brings together diverse perspectives on international security across the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space. It is a dialogue that unfolds across the episodes. Each month, we hold two separate conversations with two experts from one of the world’s capitals. They offer differing, and sometimes even competing views on how their capital perceives threat and what a workable security order might look like. As we move from one capital to the next, these perspectives accumulate into an inclusive map of mutual threat perceptions and possible ways forward for the region.
In this episode, Alisiya Ivanova is joined by Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, Armenia. They talk about how the end of Russia's security monopoly reshaped the South Caucasus, why Armenia is moving from one myth of security to another, the state of "no war, no peace" with Azerbaijan after the Washington deal, why Yerevan now sees "two Bakus", and what it takes for a small state to continue a balancing act in a world that has not yet agreed its new rules.
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