ARMAN GRIGORYAN Lehigh University Department of International Relations Maginnes Hall 206 9 West Packer Avenue Bethlehem, PA 18015 Tel: (610) 758-3394 E-mail: arg210@lehigh.edu ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Lehigh University, Department of International Relations: Assistant Professor, September 2012 present Lehigh University, Department of International Relations: Visiting Professor, September 2010-2012 University of Michigan, Political Science Department and the Armenian Studies Program: Post-doctoral Fellow, September 2009 - June 2010. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Center for Comparative and International Studies: Post-doctoral Fellow September 2008 - September 2009 EDUCATION Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University, 2008 Dissertation: Third Parties and State-Minority Conflicts. M.Phil., Political Science, Columbia University, 2004 M.A., International Relations, University of Chicago, 1996 Diploma with Honors (BA equivalent), Yerevan State University, Armenia, 1991 TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS IR Theory, Nationalism and Conflict, Genocide, Bargaining and War, Game Theory, Caucasus and the Balkans.
PUBLICATIONS Levon Ter-Petrossian, Armenia s Future, the Relations with Turkey, and the Karabagh Conflict, Arman Grigoryan ed. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). The Karabagh Conflict and Armenia s Failed Transition to Democracy, forthcoming in the Nationalities Papers. Concessions or Coercion? How Governments Respond to Restive Ethnic Minorities, International Security, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Spring 2015), pp. 170-207. Ethnofederalism, Separatism and Conflict: What Have We Learned from the Soviet and Yugoslav Experiences, International Political Science Review, Vol. 33, No. 5 (November, 2012), pp. 520-538. The paper has been included in the IPSR Editor s Choice collection called Borders and Margins. Third-Party Intervention and the Escalation of State-Minority Conflicts, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 4 (December, 2010), pp. 1143-1174. Correspondence: Hate Narratives and Ethnic Conflict (with Stuart J. Kaufman) International Security, Vol. 34, No. 4, (Spring 2007), pp. 180-191. Third-Party Intervention and Escalation in Kosovo: Does Moral Hazard Explain It? Ethnopolitics, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 195-213. Reprinted in Alan J. Kuperman and Timothy W. Crawford, eds., Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). The EU and the Karabagh Conflict in Dov Lynch ed., Security and Insecurity in the South Caucasus (European Union Institute for Security Studies, Chaillot Paper no. 65, Paris, 2003). PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND CURRENT PROJECTS A Tale of Two Mass Movements and How the West Reacted to Them or Why John McCain Went to Kiev, but not to Yerevan, R&R in International Security. A Direct Test of the Kantian Logic of Democracy Promotion, paper presented at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, 3 September, 2016. The paper has a revise and resubmit status in International Security. Armenia s Failed Transition, paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY, 15 April, 2016. The paper has a revise and resubmit status in the Nationalities Papers.
A Tale of Two Oppositional Movements and How the West Related to Them or Why John McCain Went to Ukraine, but not to Armenia, paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of the Study of Nationalities, 25 April, 2015. War and Democracy: How the Karabagh Conflict Destroyed Armenia s Transition and Why It Suggests that Democratic Peace May Be an Artifact of a Selection Effect, Invited presentation co-sponsored by the Lichtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, the Near-Eastern Studies Department, and the Program on Russian and Eurasian Studies, Princeton University, 2 May, 2013. Humanitarian Interventions: Do They Provide Evidence for a Normative Shift in International Relations? Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, 4 September, 2009. War, Fears of Minorities, and Genocide, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 2007; the London School of Economics, 16 March, 2007; the Program on International Political Economy and Security at the University of Chicago, 17 January, 2008, and at the Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan, 11 January, 2010. Spoiling or Denial: The US-Russian Rivalry and Russia s Options in the Caucasus, Presentation at a conference on the US-Russian interaction in the Caspian region, Harvard University, October 23, 2000. Regime Type, Information, and Crisis Bargaining: A Critique Presentation at the biannual Yale-Columbia IR theory-diplomatic history conference, Yale University, October 27, 2000. Distribution of Power and Irredentist Ethnic Wars: The Case of Nagorno-Karabagh, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of the Study of Nationalities, April 15, 1999, New York, NY. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Franz Fellowship, Lehigh University, 2017. Franz Fellowship, Lehigh University, 2013. Post-doctoral Fellowship: Political Science Department and the Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, 2009-2010. Post-doctoral Fellowship: Center for Comparative and International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2008-2009. Summer Travel Grant: Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, 2003.
Pre-doctoral Fellowship: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, 2002-04. Summer Research Grant: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 2002. Pre-doctoral Fellowship: Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, 2001-2002. Fellowship to Participate in the Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy: Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, 2000. President s Fellow: Columbia University, 1998-2004. SELECT MEDIA APPEARANCES, OPEDS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS The Bear Is Back, The US News and World Report, October 7, 2015. Available at http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/10/07/why-the-us-is-impotentbefore-russias-aggression-in-syria?int=a55a09. Can Armenia Change How It Sees Turkey? The Washington Post, 18 April, 2015. Invited presentation at the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Armenia s compliance with PACE Resolution 1677, 5 October, 2010. Invited presentation at the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Armenia s compliance with PACE Resolutions 1609, 1620, and 1643, 20 April, 2009. Interview on the war in South Ossetia: A1+ Information Agency, Armenia. The version in English available at http://www.a1plus.am:81/en/?page=issue&iid=63481, 26 August, 2008. Armenia after the Election: Congressional testimony on the crisis following the presidential elections in Armenia, United States House of Representatives, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 17 April, 2008. The Crisis in Armenia: Invited presentation on the crisis following the presidential elections in Armenia, Brookings Institution, 13 March 2008. Invited presentation on the state of affairs in Georgia: The World Bank, 11 September, 2007.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Second Secretary, Middle East Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, 1993. Analyst, Department of Research and Analysis, President s Office, Armenia, 1991-1993. MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE The American Political Science Association The Association of the Study of Nationalities Reviewer for International Security Reviewer for International Studies Quarterly Reviewer for the Journal of Peace Research Reviewer for the Journal of Conflict Resolution Reviewer for the International Political Science Review LANGUAGES Native fluency in English, Russian, and Armenian, reading and basic speaking ability in Turkish.