Vicken Cheterian is a journalist and political analyst. He teaches international relations at Webster University, Geneva, and lectures in the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva. His books include Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide (C Hurst, 2015), From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions: Reform and Revolution after Communism (C Hurst, 2013), and War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia’s Troubled Frontier (C Hurst, 2009)
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Published in: oDR: OpinionThe wars that changed the South CaucasusComparing the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh to the 2008 Georgia-Russian War shows a pattern of receding western...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAn eyewitness account of Arab-Afghans and the inception of the Jihadi movementHow did the first generation of Arab jihadists lead the way to today’s Islamists? A book review.
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Published in: HomeCambodia: justice after genocideKhmer Rouge mass killings were followed by cynical geopolitics. By the time justice took the stand, was it also impossible?
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Published in: HomeTuol Sleng: prison-museum of Cambodia's genocideA visit to the Khmer Rouge's death chamber seeds reflection on past and present alike.
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Published in: HomeSyria: is debate still possible?The violence and polarisation of Syria's long war can induce paralysis of the mind. Only a polity based on law and...
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Published in: HomeMoscow, August 1991: a world-changing failure25 years ago, an attempted takeover by communist hardliners led to the Soviet Union's collapse. The reverberations...