The Power and Interest News Report has a story about ‘’Armenia: The Dream of Complementarity and the Reality of Dependency'’.

It talks about the “authoritarian-tending strong presidential regime of Robert Kocharian”:

In pursuit of its perceived interests, Yerevan has adopted a foreign policy of “complementarity,” which involves cultivating friendly relations with the world and regional powers — Russia, the United States and Iran — that impinge upon it. The aim of the complementarity policy is to place Armenia into a network of relations among the impinging powers that is based on convergent interests. The best-case scenario for Yerevan would be an agreement among the impinging powers to guarantee the security of the three Transcaucasian republics — Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia — and treat them as interdependent components of a single region. This ideal solution would protect Armenia’s autonomy, which is always problematic as a result of its basic geostrategic weakness.

As the article points out, Armenia is just not that important to the west because of its lack of resources, in contrast with Azerbaijan which the west “covets”.

Armenia’s weakness leaves it stranded as the junior partner in the emerging Moscow-Yerevan-Tehran axis and excluded from the far more lucrative Baku-Tbilisi-Ankara axis presided over by N.A.T.O.

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