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Armenia’s Strategic Dilemma: Geography versus History

October 13, 2025 Laura LindermanAlexander John Paul LutzEleanor Pugh Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

Armenia faces significant challenges to its political stability and geopolitical security as it attempts a high-stakes strategic pivot away from its traditional Russian security patron and toward the West—a reorientation driven not by choice but by necessity, as the country finds itself militarily inferior, diplomatically isolated, and abandoned by unreliable security guarantors.