ՔՄՀԿ գիտաշխատողների հոդվածները լույս են տեսել  Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus ժողովածուում։

Table of Contents

Introduction Alexander Agadjanian, Ansgar Jödicke and Evert van der Zweerde

Part 1: Conceptual Frames

1. General Trends in the Interaction of Religion and Politics as Applied to the South Caucasus Ansgar Jödicke

2. Ethnicity, Nation and Religion: Current Debates and South Caucasian Reality Alexander Agadjanian

3. Democratic Repertoires – The South Caucasus Case(s) Evert van der Zweerde

Part 2: Religion and Politics 

Introduction Ketevan Khutsishvili

4. Secularization and Desecularization in Georgia: State and Church under the Saakashvili Government (2003-2012) Barbare Janelidze

5. Political Power and Church Construction in Armenia Yulia Antonyan  6. Islam in Azerbaijan: Revival and Political Involvement Elnur Ismayilov

Part 3: Religion, Nationalism and Education

Introduction Farda Asadov 

7. Building Georgian National Identity: a Comparison of Two Turning Points in History Tatia Kekelia

8. Challenges for Women’s Education in Independent Azerbaijan Nigar Gozalova

9. Constructing Identities through General Education: Religion within the Framework of National Identity in Armenia Satenik Mkrtchyan

Part 4: Cultural Values, Ideology and Democracy

Introduction Tigran Matosyan

10. An Analysis of Counter-Hegemony: Challenges of Political Opposition in Azerbaijan Rashad Shirinov

11. Myths and Politics: “Old” Beliefs and “New” Aspirations in Independent Armenia Sona Hovhannisyan 

12. Collectivism/Individualism in the South Caucasus. Implications for Democracy Tigran Matosyan

Part 5: International Context and External Impacts  Introduction Hovhannes Hovhannisyan 

13. Shi‘a Politics, “Strategic Culture” and Iran’s Relations with the South Caucasus Tatevik Mkrtchyan

14. Russia’s Soft Power in the South Caucasus: Discourses, Communication, Hegemony Alexander Kornilov and Andrey Makarychev 

15. Between Ambition and Realism: Turkey’s Engagement in the South Caucasus Bayram Balci