The next episode of the security-focused “Dilemma” podcast discusses Armenia-US relations, their historical development and institutionalization issues, US involvement in the Artsakh issue, common perceptions in Armenian reality, the role of upcoming US elections, and whether the quality and dynamics of Armenia-US relations are entirely conditioned by US-Russia relations.
The guests are historian Nzhdeh Hovsepyan and military-political expert Armine Margaryan. The conversation is hosted by Areg Kochinyan, head of the “Research Center on Security Policy.”
Nzhdeh Hovsepyan
“Our security environment has been significantly undermined in recent years, and this undermining is primarily due to regional and geopolitical processes… we need to approach this issue with a cool head and calculation.”
Armine Margaryan
“The period when our problems had to remain within the region seems to be in the past. We have managed to truly internationalize our issues, and the United States is playing a very active mission in this.”
Areg Kochinyan
“Our region is not a primary strategic interest region for the United States. In the medium and long term, what matters most to the States is everything that will help them ‘restraining’ China. In the short term – everything that will help ‘restraining’ Russia.”
