1 Nouvel Hay Magazine

Démocratisation en Arménie , autoritarisme dans le monde : 30 avril 2019

à Harvard University , USA

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH (NAASR) / CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION SERIES ON CONTEMPORARY ARMENIAN ISSUES, AGBU-YP BOSTON, AND THE HARVARD ARMENIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
Present a Panel Discussion A TREND OR AN EXCEPTION? DEMOCRATIZATION IN ARMENIA AND AUTHORITARIANISM WORLDWIDE Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 7:30 p.m. Moderated by Dr. Lisa Gulesserian Lecturer on Armenian, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University With Panelists  Dr. Anna Ohanyan (Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Stonehill College), Dr. Dimitri Sotiropoulos (Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard Univ.), Dr. Valerie Sperling (Dept. of Political Science, Clark Univ.) Harvard University, Fong Auditorium (Boylston Hall)
Free and open to the public.  Reception and refreshments immediately following the program and question-and-answer session.

Contact hq@naasr.org or 617-489-1610 for more information.
     At a time when there is great concern over the apparent decline of liberal democracy around the world, in 2018 Armenia seemed to be a notable exception and was hailed as “badly needed good news for democracy” by the Washington Post. As the one-year anniversary of the Velvet Revolution approaches, is the news still good? Is Armenia an outlier, an exceptional case in a world where government-by-strong-man increasingly is the model? What can be learned from the examples of other states where democracy is in peril? Join with a panel of distinguished scholars to discuss these and other issues relating to democracy and authoritarianism in Armenia and around the world.