Comparing Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide with Japan's response to Second World War crimes, this article tests theories of state ontological security. It argues that historical context and international pressures shape how states manage identity-threatening pasts.
Ulgen analyzes Atatürk's speeches and political writings to trace how portrayals of Armenians helped establish enduring narratives of Turkish innocence and Armenian culpability.
Watenpaugh uses League of Nations Rescue Home intake surveys from Aleppo to examine the rescue of Armenian women and children after the genocide. He places this work within the League's larger postwar humanitarian project and its political setting in the eastern Mediterranean.
The article examines official renaming of Armenian and other non-Muslim place names under Ottoman and republican rule, presenting a 1916 decree and interpreting toponym change as historical erasure.
German-Ottoman discourse from the 1890s through World War I is reframed as multidirectional Orientalism tied to jihad, imperial rivalry, ethnic homogenization, and the Armenian Genocide.
Survey data, electoral platforms, newspapers, laws, and elite interviews reveal competing Armenian identities around genocide memory, Turkey, Karabagh, diaspora citizenship, justice, and democracy.
Koinova compares Ukrainian, Serbian, Albanian, and Armenian diaspora engagement after communism, asking how differing conditions in their countries of origin shape democratic involvement. The article distinguishes participation oriented to political procedure from participation that also embraces liberal-democratic commitments.
Examining Armenian-Turkish relations after the 1915–1923 Armenian Genocide, the article critiques conventional conflict resolution and proposes just transformation attentive to denial, domination, historical harm, and unequal power.
Using letters and public statements, this French-language article studies American reactions to the massacres of Armenians in the 1890s. It traces how missionaries, Armenian migrants, and liberal reformers shaped humanitarian advocacy and congressional debate.
Long-term testimony, literature, memory sites, and community institutions anchor an anthropology of Armenian post-genocide exile, fragmentation, transmission, and diasporic belonging.
Suny examines competing interpretations of the Ottoman Armenian catastrophe and the uses of revisionism in historical argument. The article distinguishes evidence-led historical revision from nationalist accounts that justify or deny organized violence.
Surveys of one hundred Armenians and interviews with community participants, Hrant Dink, and Mayda Saris examine how the bilingual weekly AGOS voices minority grievances and builds collective Armenian identity while promoting democratization in Turkey.
Young Turk population policy from 1913 to 1950 is analyzed through genocide, deportation, forced assimilation, eastern-province implementation, and the project of a Turkish nation-state.
Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh are compared as quasi-states whose authorities seek practical legitimacy by delivering security, infrastructure, welfare, and a credible claim to nationhood.
The article compares Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia on divergent NATO tracks, relating regional partnership to security priorities, defense standards, foreign alignments, and the constraints surrounding South Caucasus cooperation.
The study compares Indigenous removal in the 1830s with the wartime destruction of Ottoman Armenians through the American Board's witness and criticism of exclusionary state-building.
A three-part study follows American Jewish engagement from Hamidian relief through Genocide witnesses and the 2007 congressional recognition dispute, weighing moral duty against strategic concerns.
Dugan and colleagues compare the trajectories of ASALA and JCAG to explain why two Armenian militant organizations declined rapidly after periods of sustained activity.
The decline of Turkey's Armenian, Greek, and Jewish populations is traced through voluntary and coerced emigration, connecting minority departure to twentieth-century nationalism and nation-building.
The article recounts Nagorno-Karabakh's competing Armenian and Azerbaijani claims, the 1994 ceasefire, subsequent unrecognized republic, prior mediation, and possible settlement approaches.
This history of Roman–Sasanian relations treats Armenia as a major frontier arena within four centuries of war, negotiation, economic exchange, religious change, and imperial communication.
The essay assesses European Union involvement in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh, arguing that a decade of limited UN- and OSCE-led negotiation warrants greater EU use of its broader policy tools.
The Turkish study places Trabzon Ermenileri within nineteenth-century Katolik and Protestan misyonerlik, presenting schools, foreign patronage, trade, and imperial political competition as forces reshaping the city’s Armenian community.
Drawing on Osmanlı materials, the author portrays Amerikan Protestan missions among Ermeniler after the 1840s through okul, hastane, yetimhane, and kilise institutions entangled with political mobilization and diplomacy.
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