In a lecture on 2 July for the 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia, RSC Director Richard Giragosian presented an analytical overview of “Armenia’s new post-war strategy.” The lecture in Yerevan was part of the symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
In the first of two lectures for the 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia, RSC Director Richard Giragosian offered as assessment on 30 June focusing on “Western Engagement in the South Caucasus.” The lecture in Yerevan was part of the symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
The Regional Studies Center (RSC) released a brief two-page RSC Policy Note on 7 March 2025, entitled “The U.S. Policy Shift on Aid to Ukraine: Implications for the Baltic States,” focused on the dramatic and confrontational policy toward Ukraine.

The Regional Studies Center (RSC) released a new four-page RSC Policy Report on 3 March 2025, entitled “Management and Mitigation: Weathering a Volatile American Foreign Policy,” assessing the challenges to Armenia from a serious shift in U.S. foreign policy.

Writing an opinion piece for BNE INTELLINEWS on 4 February, RSC Director Richard Giragosian offered a brief assessment of the implications of the new Trump Administration on the South Caucasus.
