As the latest in our think tank’s collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), RSC Director Richard Giragosian served as a senior trainer for KAS Georgia’s Academy of Political Education in a three-day training and role play simulation exercise held in Yerevan from 25-27 August.
The Regional Studies Center (RSC) held a special analytical briefing on 14 August to assess the Washington trilateral “peace summit” hosted by U.S. President Trump on 8 August, with Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Aliyev signing a new “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP) agreement and the two sides also initialing a post-war bilateral peace treaty. A separate online session of this special briefing was also held on 15 August, with participants from Ankara, Berlin, Brussels, London, Paris, Tbilisi and Washington.
In a lecture on 2 July for the 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia, RSC Director Richard Giragosian presented an analytical overview of “Armenia’s new post-war strategy.” The lecture in Yerevan was part of the symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
In the first of two lectures for the 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia, RSC Director Richard Giragosian offered as assessment on 30 June focusing on “Western Engagement in the South Caucasus.” The lecture in Yerevan was part of the symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
The Regional Studies Center (RSC) released a brief two-page RSC Policy Note on 7 March 2025, entitled “The U.S. Policy Shift on Aid to Ukraine: Implications for the Baltic States,” focused on the dramatic and confrontational policy toward Ukraine.