Yeghia Tashjian

Yeghia Tashjian is the Issam Fares Institute Public Policy and International Affairs-American University of Beirut’s Regional and International Affairs Cluster Coordinator. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and International Affairs from the American University of Beirut and completed the "Strategic Leadership in Global Societal Security Program" at the Swedish Defense University in 2022. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Haigazian University in 2013 and has worked in the university's Armenian Diaspora Research Center between 2016-2017. Yeghia's master’s thesis focused on China's geopolitical and energy security interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. Currently, Tashjian is engaged in research on the phenomenon of Turkish-Russian 'co-opetition' in the MENA+ Caucasus region and Russia's involvement in the International North-South Transport Corridor. He contributes to various local and regional newspapers, has presented various topics from minority rights to regional security issues, and is a part-time instructor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut.
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Book Review | Clash of Histories in the South Caucasus

Clash of Histories in the South Caucasus: Redrawing the map of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Iran By Rouben Galichian Bennet &…

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Will Turkey gamble with Ukraine against Russia?

Introduction In the past few years, Turkey has been gradually increasing its influence in Ukraine through trade and military cooperation amid escalating…

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The Russian-Turkish “Co-opetition” in Eurasia and Beyond

Introduction  “Co-opetition” was a term coined by Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff to describe a paradoxical strategy of cooperation…

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Beyond the Centennials of the Moscow and Kars Treaties

The year 1921 officially put an end to the independence and territorial unity aspirations of the First Armenian Republic—a republic…

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Is Iran making a comeback to the South Caucasus?

In one of my previous articles “Iran and the Second Artsakh War: Has Tehran lost its leverage over the South…

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Book Review | Political Relations Between Mongols and Kingdom of Lesser Armenia

In his book Political Relations between Mongols and Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (1236-1277AD) and its impact on Islamic History (published…

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What kind of Artsakh do we want?

I wanted to write about this a long time ago, even before the war. But the Artsakh War, its devastating…

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Revolutionizing the Turkish Army under Erdogan

Back in July, Rich Outzen published a policy paper “Deals, Drones and National Will: The New Era in Turkish Power…

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One Year After the Beirut Blast

On August 4, 2020 at around 6PM local time, a huge chemical explosion shook Beirut and its surrounding cities. The…

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Pashinyan’s Foreign Policy Challenges

Caretaker PM Nikol Pashinyan and his party’s euphoria from election victory will soon disappear, since for them, the post-election period…

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