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About Vicken Cheterian

Vicken Cheterian is a journalist and political analyst who works for the non-profit governance organisation CIMERA, based in Geneva. He is the author of War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia’s Troubled Frontier (C Hurst, 2009; Columbia University Press, 2009), and From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions: Reform and Revolution After Socialism (C Hurst, forthcoming, 2012)

Articles by Vicken Cheterian

Monday 6th February

Tunisia: a year of all dangers

Vicken Cheterian, 6 February 2012
Tunisia is both the pioneer of the Arab spring and its greatest success so far. But even here the political and economic tests are acute, says Vicken Cheterian.
Friday 30th December

Armenia-Turkey: the end of rapprochement

Vicken Cheterian, 30 December 2011
A diplomatic process designed to normalise relations between Armenia and Turkey led to the signing of two protocols in 2009. Its failure is rooted in the miscalculations of both sides, says Vicken Cheterian.
Wednesday 23rd November

Torture and the Arab system, old and new

Vicken Cheterian, 23 November 2011
The Arab awakening of 2011 raises hope of an end to the torture and other human-rights violations that have long been endemic in Arab states. But it will be a tough legacy to overcome, says Vicken Cheterian.
Sunday 11th September

9/11, and the hijacked decade

Vicken Cheterian, 11 September 2011
The al-Qaida strategy of attacking the United States created its own form of blowback. But the triumph of militarisation after 9/11 exacted a deeper cost on the world, says Vicken Cheterian.
Thursday 8th September

Egypt, the Nile and the revolution

Vicken Cheterian, 8 September 2011
The fate of Egypt across the centuries is indissolubly linked to the river which gives it life. Today, a range of problems - environmental, political, economic - threaten the provision and the quality of the Nile waters. They present another challenge for the young post-Mubarak order, says Vicken Cheterian 
Wednesday 22nd June

Syria’s broken spring: a Damascus report

Vicken Cheterian, 22 June 2011
A seething revolt across much of Syria is being met with ferocious repression by the Ba’athist government’s security forces. But so far, the two cities where close to half of Syria’s population lives - Damascus and Aleppo - are relatively calm. In this evolving situation, what are the prospects for Syria’s regime and people? Vicken Cheterian reports and reflects.  
Thursday 10th March

The Arab revolt and the colour revolutions

Vicken Cheterian, 10 March 2011
The fate of the popular insurgencies in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and elsewhere in the early-mid 2000s could offer guidance or warning to the middle-east uprising of 2011 - and to western states, says Vicken Cheterian. 
Wednesday 26th January

The Arab crisis: food, energy, water, justice

Vicken Cheterian, 26 January 2011
Tunisia’s popular uprising is reverberating across the Arab world. But such movements face problems that go far wider than dictatorship to encompass the whole range of human security, says Vicken Cheterian.
Wednesday 20th October

The Armenia-Turkey protocols: a year on

Vicken Cheterian, 20 October 2010
The process of dialogue between neighbours locked in an enduring dispute over the events of 1915 is already in trouble. But in assessing what has gone wrong, Vicken Cheterian sees history still on the move.
Tuesday 15th June

Kyrgyzstan failing, and an arc of crisis

Vicken Cheterian, 15 June 2010
The violent descent of parts of Kyrgyzstan into communal conflict since the overthrow of its president in April 2010 leaves a security vacuum whose dangerous effects could be felt across central Asia, says Vicken Cheterian. 
Saturday 24th April

Armenian genocide and Turkey: then and now

Vicken Cheterian, 24 April 2010
The destruction of the Ottoman Armenians began on 24 April 1915. Almost a century later the contemporary political relevance of the "great catastrophe" remains undiminished, says Vicken Cheterian.
Tuesday 13th October

Armenia-Turkey: genocide, blockade, diplomacy

Vicken Cheterian, 13 October 2009
A bad agreement cannot turn old adversaries into good neighbours
Wednesday 8th July

Georgia: between war and a future

Vicken Cheterian, 8 July 2009
A year on from a disastrous war with Russia, the political elite in Tbilisi remains mired in illusion
Wednesday 3rd September

Georgia's forgotten legacy

Vicken Cheterian, 3 September 2008
Georgia must turn to the past to find the future
Tuesday 19th February

Armenia’s election: the waiting game

Vicken Cheterian, 19 February 2008
A presidential contest between existing and former leaders may be the last before a new generation emerges
Tuesday 25th September

Lebanon: short memory, system failure

Vicken Cheterian, 25 September 2007

The tangled roots of a troubled election

Wednesday 4th July

Georgia’s arms race

Vicken Cheterian, 4 July 2007
Georgia's military ambitions cast a shadow over the lost territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Tuesday 17th April

Serbia after Kosovo

Vicken Cheterian, 17 April 2007
Serbian views about the prospect of independence for the territory it lost in 1999 are more complex than they often appear, finds Vicken Cheterian in Belgrade.
Tuesday 23rd January

The pigeon sacrificed: Hrant Dink, and a broken dialogue

Vicken Cheterian, 23 January 2007
The assassination of Hrant Dink has destroyed a bridge between Turks and Armenians, says Vicken Cheterian.
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