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“ARMENIA’S IMPERATIVE: REGAINING STRATEGIC BALANCE”

Media 11 June 2015

In a book entitled, “Unrewarding Crossroads? The Black Sea amidst the European Union and Russia,” published by the Sofia Platform, RSC Director Richard Giragosian contributed a chapter assessing the set of challenges and opportunities facing Armenia. The book, a project of the Sofia Platform financed by the German Marshall Fund’s Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, was edited by Anahit Shirinyan and Louisa Slavkova.

The Sofia Platform is a venue for dialogue and exchange between the societies in transformation. Launched in 2011, its main objective is to promote the smoother transition to rule of law and democracy by reflecting the need of knowledge transfer between the countries in transition. The concept, successfully established by Sofia Platform, is based on comparison of transitional experiences, obtained through research and dialogue between civil society and the political leaders of four transitional blocks: Central Eastern Europe (former Communist states), the MENA countries, the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership countries.

http://sofiaplatform.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unrewarding-crossroads.pdf

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