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Post-Soviet Armenia : the New National Elite and the New National Narrative.
"Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has struggled to establish itself, with a faltering economy, emigration of the intelligentsia and the weakening of civil society. This book explores how a new national elite has emerged and how it has constructed a new national narrative to s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2017.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Setting the stage
- What, why and how?
- Research question
- Why Armenia?
- Empirical significance
- Theoretical relevance
- Conceptual framework
- Elites and elite formations
- The role of elites in constructing a nationally significant narrative
- Methodology
- Book outline
- Chapter organization
- Notes
- 2 Armeniaâ#x80;#x99;s political elites?
- Introduction
- Elite?
- Armenian political elites: historical shortcutA look into Armenian nobility
- Political leadership of the First Republic
- The partocratic elite of Soviet Armenia
- Conceptualizing elite transformation
- Identifying elites
- Classics
- Other schools
- Post-Soviet elite conceptualization
- New Armenia, new elites?
- Circulation or reproduction, transformation or continuity
- Profiling Ter-Petrosyanâ#x80;#x99;s elites: ex-Soviet nomenklatura, former Soviet dissidents and representatives of the Diaspora, 1991â#x80;#x93;8
- Profiling Kocharyanâ#x80;#x99;s elites: NK war veterans, Soviet- and Western-educated technocrats, Diaspora representatives and oligarchs, 1998â#x80;#x93;2008Profiling Sargsyanâ#x80;#x99;s elites: political nomads, 2008â#x80;#x93;16
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3 Constructing and deconstructing the national narrative
- Introduction
- Conceptualizing national identity and national interest
- Constructing the concepts: the role of elites
- Armenian â#x80;#x98;imagined communityâ#x80;#x99;
- Across the millennia
- Soviet â#x80;#x98;acculturationâ#x80;#x99;
- The nation state or nation and state?
- Ter-Petrosyanâ#x80;#x99;s nation building: concessions vs. survivalKocharyanâ#x80;#x99;s state building narrative: â#x80;#x98;embracing survivalâ#x80;#x99;
- Sargsyan: reimagining the imagined?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 The nerve of Armenian politics: Nagorno-Karabakh
- Introduction
- From Arran to the Black Garden
- War and independence
- Over- or under-securitization?
- Ter-Petrosyan: the cost of the presidential chair
- Kocharyan: moving Stepanakert to Yerevan
- Sargsyan: more talks, fewer results
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 Turkey: confronting the past, surviving the present
- IntroductionOttoman Armenians: a stateless nation
- Genocide: survival and identity reinforcement
- Sovietâ#x80;#x93;Turkish courtship
- Surviving or embracing the present?
- Ter-Petrosyan: â#x80;#x98;no eternal enemiesâ#x80;#x99;
- Kocharyan: a permanent â#x80;#x98;the otherâ#x80;#x99;
- Sargsyan: the in-between
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6 Diaspora: Armeniaâ#x80;#x99;s failed marriage
- Introduction
- Diaspora: a reimagined community
- Armenians: a diaspora nation
- Myth and reality of the homeland
- Ter-Petrosyanâ#x80;#x99;s underestimation
- Kocharyanâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;cash cowâ#x80;#x99
- ""Sargsyanâ#x80;#x99;s carrots and sticks""