MSSR 2023 | Richard Giragosian: United States in the Caucasus

Richard Giragosian, director of the Yerevan-based Regional Studies Center, delivered a lecture at the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia 2023 in Armenia & Georgia, July 2-18, 2023. The Symposium is organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
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Thanks Richard

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I would have liked to hear the questions. One question I have is what can Armenia provide to its neighbors, whether of intrinsic or extrinsic value, that they can not get elsewhere? I would venture to guess is it’s strategic location. My second question is that Azerbaijan is going to run out of oil in 2028 to 2030. Will it then make its money transporting Russian oil through its gear? And third, why does Azerbaijan choose to have a negative relationship with Armenia? Does it not see its own reality as a historic aggressor at any point in order to say, well, we have the sea, we have turkey, why don’t we just get along with her?