Opinion

In the constantly evolving landscape of international diplomacy, resolutions and rulings often carry the weight of hope, accountability and change. However, the international community’s weak response to Azerbaijan’s devastating hostilities has left many Armenians disillusioned.

Azerbaijan, emboldened by impunity, is aggressively pursuing an irredentist foreign policy, now targeting Armenia proper. Yerevan must swiftly undertake measures and adopt a robust and unequivocal legal strategy to safeguard its sovereignty and deter further acts of aggression.

While some welcomed Armenia’s ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, a cohort of skeptics remain opposed to the idea. Sheila Paylan addresses the most relevant concerns.

The restoration of Armenian sovereignty in 1991 prompts us to contemplate the future of Armenia and its position in the international order, writes Gaidz Minassian.This is all the more pressing when the Armenian state has never been thoroughly examined through the lens of international relations theories.

Despite unequivocal evidence, the United Nations, like other international actors, failed to address the threats looming over the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, who today are uprooted, homeless, forcibly displaced with thousands more still fleeing.

Three years ago today, on September 27, Azerbaijan launched a catastrophic war against Artsakh, leaving thousands dead and swathes of territory captured. Three years on, the world is witnessing the mass exodus of the indigenous Armenian population of Artsakh.

A news story that was supposed to be a stand-up, an on-site narration laying out the facts, describing the situation, a crisis, a national calamity, an ethnic cleansing as it unfolds…

Raffi Kassarjian introduces the concept of a national, collective effort to safeguard the independence, democratic principles and complete territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia where every square cm is protected, with no compromises or territorial concessions of any kind to any external threats or demands.

A state that provides security for its people and ensures prosperity requires an innovative paradigm for nationhood, a model of an entirely new caliber of a digitally interlinked nation. Armenia must assume a pivotal role as a nucleus, with the diaspora emerging with a significant constellation of centers.

If we can turn off the noise for just a moment amid this fresh hellish phase, we might regain the panoramic clarity that we remain, as our mountains, firmly rooted in the crust of the earth from which we eternally rise, writes Sheila Paylan.