Conclusion: “Ideational Redlines” and “Structural Dynamics”

Abstract

This study has provided an interpretative analysis of armenia’s Foreign policy since independence. To distill the major challenges and dilemmas facing Armenia in the international sphere, this book focused on exploring four sets of relationships with Armenia’s major historical “partners”: Russia, Iran, Turkey, and the West. This approach of navigating through the various intricacies of foreign policy with these four states simultaneously allowed for the disclosure of Armenia’s place in the region, its role in shaping regional dynamics through patterns of political, cultural, and historical enmity and friendship and, likewise, the continuous fluctuation and reshaping of the narrative of Armenian identity. On the conceptual level, this study examined the complex interaction between agency (as the historical self) and structure (as a regional security complex).