ARMENIA WITHIN THE COMPLEX OF “OVERLAPPING AUTHORITY AND MULTIPLE LOYALTY”: SECURITY CHALLENGES
ARMENIA WITHIN THE COMPLEX OF “OVERLAPPING AUTHORITY AND MULTIPLE LOYALTY”: SECURITY CHALLENGES

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the unique position of Armenia within the overlapping paradigms of European and Eurasian integration. It deals with the security challenges for Armenia, which arise from contradictions between integration, fragmentation and sovereign nationhood in the shared neighbourhood of the European Union (EU) and Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). On November 24,2017, Armenia, a member of both Russia-led EAEU and the EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP), signed an ambitious Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with the EU. Armenia and theEU managed to make the CEPA, a lighter version of AAs / DCFTAs concluded with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, compatible with Armenia’s membership in the EAEU. Furthermore, the applicability of Cold War time Finland’s Paasikivi-Kekkonen foreign policy doctrine for Armenia needs to be conceptualized, which will provide valuable insights into the security of EaP countries. Thus, via comparative case study of Armenia’s way of containment and accommodation of the Russian power and its ambitious engagement with the EU, the paper will reveal the possibility of new paradigms for other EaP countries.

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