PSCRP-BESA Reports No 160 (October 23, 2025)
The arrest of Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan and several priests in mid-October 2025 has deepened tensions between the Armenian government and the Armenian Apostolic Church, an institution whose leadership maintains historic and political …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 159 (October 17, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
David Aprasidze’s article “Civil society and anti-corruption reform in Georgia: revisiting the rose revolution”, published on September 18, 2025, in Frontiers in Political Science, offers a …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 157 (October 6, 2025)
When a former U.S. ambassador says Washington has effectively abandoned Central Asia to Russia and China, it’s not idle chatter. Daniel Rosenblum, who served as ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2019 to 2022 …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 155 (September 28, 2025)
At the United Nations General Assembly this year, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov did not disguise where Bishkek’s loyalties lie. In his speech, he castigated Western sanctions on Kyrgyz banks and reaffirmed …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 154 (September 25, 2025)
On September 1, the ultimatum set by the European Union expired, threatening to cancel Georgia’s visa-free regime if a number of demands were not met, including repealing the Russian-style law on “foreign …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 153 (September 23, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
Explosive Identity
There is no longer any need to convince anyone that questions of national consciousness and identity have become a matter of scholarly debate far beyond the borders …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 152 (September 20, 2025)
The South Caucasus is regarded by Russia as its domain—a territory of the former USSR and the former Russian Empire, which, in Moscow’s view, must remain within its sphere of influence. Therefore, …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 151 (September 9, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
1. RAND Europe’s publications always fall into the “must-read” category. Just like its American counterpart, the European branch has a fine-tuned ability to pick up signals from key political …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 148 (August 25, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
Depopulation—especially in the form of the departure of able-bodied families—is considered today a key socio-economic trend in the Baltic countries. Many researchers – not just journalists in mass …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 147 (August 18, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
1. Our July review opens with an article by Dinissa Duvanova, a researcher from the Department of International Relations, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, titled “Syndrome …
