On Monday 23 November Tigran Mkrtchyan will speak on “Normalising Armenian-Turkish Relations: Prospects and Regional Implications” from 10.00-11.30am.
Tigran Mkrtchyan is the European Stability Initiative’s (ESI) Analyst in Armenia. Before working for ESI he worked as the Foreign Affairs Adviser to the Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia (2005-06), lectured courses in International Relations and History at Yerevan State University and was the Executive Director of the Armenian International Policy Research Group-AIPRG (2007-08). He holds an MPhil degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge (Chevening Scholar), MA degree in Classics and BA degree in History from the History Faculty of Yerevan State University. He was a 2006 John Smith Fellow in the United Kingdom from Armenia and a World Vision Youth Ambassador from Armenia in 1998. He has published several articles in Armenia and abroad on international security and theory.
His research interests include international history, international security (NATO and alliance politics), and political theory (history of political thought and theory of international relations). Over the past few years he has been working on Armenian-Turkish relations. He often publishes op-ed articles for the Capital Daily business newspaper in Armenia.
The meeting will be chaired by Oksana Antonenko, Senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the IISS. It will take place on the 4th Floor at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3D.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP Clara Lane-Spollen at Lane-spollen@iiss.org.
