CAUCASUS ANALYTICAL DIGEST No. 129, September 2022
Narek Sukiasyan (Yerevan State University, Center for Culture and Civilization Studies)
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000570374
Abstract
This article examines the evolution of Armenian perceptions of the European Union (EU) from official and public perspectives. The goal of study is to (a) reveal the official discourse on relations with the EU and the West from the perspective of the heads of the state since independence, with an emphasis on the transformations during the last two administrations beginning in 2008, and (b) to analyse public narratives interpreting the role of the EU in the light of the wars in Karabakh (2020) and Ukraine (2022), allowing us greater insight into the modes of public thinking on security, foreign policy and their ethics that feed both the proWestern and pro-Russian domestic agendas.
