The First President of the Republic of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, writes:
“I finally had the opportunity to read Arman Grigoryan’s article “Revolutionary Governments, Irrationalism, and Wars: The Case of the Second Karabakh War,” published last year in the Security Studies journal, which was also published in translation in Ilur (October 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2024).
I believe that this is not only a convincing and interesting work written about the causes of that war, but also an important analysis of the distorted evolution of Armenia’s political and intellectual life in general.
The work is also an example of when and how political science theories can be useful for understanding real-world problems. Grigoryan’s theory of revolutions as mechanisms of negative selection is a unique key to understanding the disaster that has befallen Armenia (and not only).
Those who want to understand such disasters simply have to read that article.”
