Dr. Gayane Novikova
Founder and Director (since 2001)
President of the Marshall Center Armenian Alumni Association (since 2004)
Fellow in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
E-mail: Novikova@fas.harvard.edu; gayane.novikova@gmail.com; novikova@spectrum.am
Areas of expertise:
European Neighborhood Policy, regional security issues, ethno-political conflicts; international relations
Current Projects:
The Anatomy of the Armenian Foreign Policy; The South Caucasus between Russia and the West; “In Depth Analysis” Policy Papers (since January 2005); COWRC
Completed Projects:
Oct. 2008 – Sept. 2009 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Potential of Conflict in the South Caucasus; The Image of the Enemy; The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: in Search of the Way out (June 2003- January 2005); The South Caucasus: Regional Security and Stability (June 2003 – May 2004); Accounting for State-Building, Stability and Violent Conflict: The Institutional Framework of Caucasian and Central Asian Transitional Societies
Education:
1984 – 1987 Post-Graduate Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Science of Armenia
1973 – 1978 M.A. Faculty of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University, Armenia (Diploma with Distinction)
Training:
March 2009 Black Sea Security Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
May 2003 Senior Executive Seminar “The Global War on Terrorism: The Defining Conflict of the 21st Century?” at the George C. Marshall European
Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Aug. – Dec. 2002 Executive Program, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Publications:
Author of five monographs and editor-in-chief of 12 collections of articles, including: Regional Security Issues; Starting the ENP; The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: in Search of the Way out (Yerevan, SPECTRUM, 2004); The South Caucasus: Regional Security and Stability (Yerevan, SPECTRUM, 2004); Directions of the Armenian Foreign Policy (Yerevan, SPECTRUM, 2002); Turkish-Israeli Strategic Partnership and its Impact on the Political Situation in the South Caucasus and the Middle East, ACNIS, Yerevan, 2000; Militant Islam: Theory and Practice, Yerevan, ACNIS, 1998
More than 70 articles are published in Armenia and abroad.
Membership:
Since 2002 PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes
2001-2006 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
Joined SPECTRUM: June 2001
Diana Ananyan
Assistant of the Director
Researcher
Co-Founder and President of the Lane Kirkland Armenian Alumni Association
E-mail: d_ananian@yahoo.com; d.ananyan@spectrum.am
Areas of expertise:
Developments in the Wider Black Sea area; impact of the political processes on the social situation in the South Caucasian region, humanitarian aid.
Current Project:
Completed Project:
The Models of the NATO’s Political Behavior in the Balkans and the South Caucasus: a Comparative Analysis; Children in Armed Conflicts
Education:
February – June 2004 NATO Senior Executive Master Program at National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
1998- 2001 Department of Economy, Moscow Institute for the Humanities, Bachelor Degree, Moscow, RF
Scholarship:
Sept 2006 – July 2007 Lane Kirkland Scholarship provided by Polish-American Fulbright Commission for the research at the Warsaw University (Warsaw, Poland)
Joined SPECTRUM: June 2001
Dr. Mariam Margarian
Doctor of Political Science,
Senior analyst
Professor of the Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia
Area of scientific interests:
Dynamics of political processes and political elites, national mentality, relations of power elites, political globalistics from the view of the dialog of civilizations.
Current Theme:
Dynamics of Political Processes and Political Elites
Current Projects:
Nations in the Conditions of Globalization, Conservative Ideology in the Conditions of Globalization; “In Depth Analysis” (Policy Papers).
Education:
1972-1975 – Post-graduate study: Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
1968-1972 – Faculty of Philosophy, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
Publications:
Author of 11 monographs, including “Problems of the political modernization and development” and 40 scientific articles.
Joined SPECTRUM: March 2007
Dr. Alexander Markarov
Senior Analyst
Deputy Vice Rector and Head, International Cooperation Office, Yerevan State University
E-mail: amarkarov@ysu.am
Areas of expertise:
Democratization process and problems, regimes transition and transformation in the post-soviet region, semipresidentialism in the post-soviet region and problems of the executive-legislative relations; studies of political opposition
Current Themes and Projects:
Quality Assurance for Management of Internationalization Processes ”QATMI” Project;
Armenian- Russian relations; Armenian domestic and foreign policy.
Completed Projects:
Post Doctoral Fellowship “Regime Formation and Transformation in the Post Soviet Region: A Comparative Analysis of Semipresidentialism in Armenia, Russia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine” (2006-2008)
INTAS East and West – Network project “Eurasian Political Studies Network: Developing comparative studies of regime transformations in multicultural societies and state- nation-building process in post-soviet region.” (2005-2007)
Educational Partnership Project “Refashioning the Social Sciences and Practitioner Training in Public Administration” funded by the United States Department of State (2003 – 2006)
“Democratic Opposition as a Consolidation Factor in Transitional Regimes: Comparative Analysis of Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.” INTAS (2001 – 2004)
Education and trainings:
2010 Doctor of History
1996 Candidate of Philosophical Sciences Degree
1988 – 1993 Faculty of History, Yerevan State University, Armenia
August, 2001 – July, 2002 Junior Faculty Development Program Visiting Scholar, University of Iowa, Department of Political Science and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
Publications:
Author of two monographs and two edited volumes, 30 articles published in Armenia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Russia, USA, Poland, including publications at Demokratizatsiya The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization and Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst.
Membership:
2004 – present Eurasian Political Studies Network
2003 – present Central Eurasian Studies Society
2002 – present “European Integration” NGO
Joined SPECTRUM: October 2009
Ashot Melyan
Analyst, translator
E-mail: ashot.melyan@gmail.com;
Areas of expertise:
Conflict resolution, international relations, Armenian domestic policy
Current Projects:
The South Caucasus as a Part of the Wider Europe; “In Depth Analysis” Policy Papers (since January 2005)
Completed Projects:
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: in Search of the Way out (June 2003- January 2005); The South Caucasus: Regional Security and Stability (June 2003 – May 2004)
Education:
1982-1985 – Post-graduate study, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
1976-1981 – Faculty of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
Publications:
Armenia in the Council of Europe: Expectations and Perspectives. In: Directions of the Armenian Foreign Policy, Yerevan, SPECTRUM, 2002
Membership:
Since 2002 – PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes
Joined SPECTRUM: June 2001
Milena Oganesyan
Researcher
E-mail: milena.oganes@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:
political, social, and cultural dynamics in the Caucasus from the local, regional, and global perspectives; conflict and peace studies
Current Projects:
Completed Projects:
Education:
2008 – Pres. Ph.D. in Anthropology, The University of Montana, MT, U.S.A.
Spring 2009 Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Caucasus, Malmö University, Sweden
2006 – 2009 M.A. in History, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
2000 – 2005 Diploma in Near Eastern Studies and International Relations, Institute of Asia and Africa, Tbilisi, Georgia
Publications:
8 Articles
Membership: NA
Joined SPECTRUM: December 2009
Prof. Simon Payaslian
Senior Researcher
Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature (2007 – pres.)
Department of History, Boston University, Boston
Email: payas@bu.edu
Research interests
History of Armenia, Armenian domestic politics and foreign policy; U.S. diplomatic history and public policy; human rights, international organizations and international law; Diaspora and ethnicity.
Current projects
Human rights in Armenia; diasporan politics and U.S. foreign policy; Armenian political culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Education
Ph.D., History (2003). Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Ph.D., Political Science (1992). Department of Political Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
Select publications
“Imagining Armenia.” In The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present. Ed. Allon Gal, Athena S. Leoussi, and Anthony D. Smith. Brill, 2010. (Pp. 105-138)
“Diaspora” and “Genocide.” Articles in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Vol. 2. Oxford University Press, 2008. (Pp. 43-54, 364-371)
The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
United States Policy toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
International Political Economy: Conflict and Cooperation in the Global System. (with Frederic S. Pearson). McGraw-Hill, 1999; Chinese translation, Peking University Press, 2006.
U.S. Foreign Economic and Military Aid: The Reagan and Bush Administrations. University Press of America, 1996.
“The United Nations and the Developing Countries in the 1990s.” University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 73:3 (Spring 1996): 525-49.
“The Marshall Mission to China: Civil War and Diplomacy.” Journal of the Third World Spectrum 1:1 (Spring 1994): 33-50.
Joined SPECTRUM: in December, 2010
Sergey Sargsyan
Senior Analyst
E-mail: ssargsyan@spectrum.am
Areas of expertise:
dynamics of political and military processes in the South Caucasus and the Middle East, international terrorism, local conflicts
Current Themes:
Iran in Focus; Energy Security
Current Projects:
“In Depth Analysis” Policy Papers (since January 2005)
Completed Project:
The South Caucasus: Regional Security and Stability
Education:
May – August 2002 Leader’s Program, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1981 – 1987 Moscow High Technical School named after N. Bauman
Publications: Author of about 10 articles. Co-editor of 6 collections of articles, published by SPECTRUM
Membership:
Since 2007 – PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes (Combating Terrorism WG)
Joined SPECTRUM: April 2004
Dr. Vladimir Vardanyan
Senior Researcher
Head of International Treaties Department of Legal Advisory Service,
Staff of the Constitutional Court of RA
Professor of Public International Law, Yerevan State University (Department of Law)
E-mail: vladimirvardanyan@gmail.com
Areas of expertise:
Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Treaties, Law of State Responsibility, Constitutional Law
Current Projects:
State Responsibility for Genocide
Completed Projects:
Strengthening of the Democratic Structures and Rule of Law in Armenia
Education:
2002-2005 PhD in Public International Law, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, RA
2000-2002 Master’s degree in Law topic “Legal Status of Permanent Representations of States at International
Organizations” Yerevan State University (Department of Law), Yerevan, RA
1996-2000 Bachelor’s degree in Law, Yerevan State University (Department of Law), Yerevan, RA
Publications: 5 articles
Membership:
Armenian Bar Association
Center of Constitutional Law of the Republic of Armenia
Armenian Association of International Law
Joined SPECTRUM: June 2006