Resilience and Political Stability in the Shadow of Hybrid War and Peace Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Iran, Russia and Ukraine

Introduction

Research Design and Empirical Implementation

Chapter One: Stability Index of Political Systems: Methodology
ARUSYAK ALEKSANYAN

Chapter Two: Armenia at the Crossroads of “Neither War Nor Peace” Realities
ARUSYAK ALEKSANYAN

Chapter Three: Is Political Stability an Essential Prerequisite for Good Governance in Georgia?
ANNA SARKISYAN

Chapter Four: Multidimensional Measurements of Political Stability of Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
ARTYOM TONOYAN

Chapter Five: Transformations of Political Stability in Türkiye over the Governing Years of the Justice and Development Party (2002–2021)
VANATUR SHERENTS

Chapter Six: Stability of Iran’s Political System: Factors of Impact and Threats
GOHAR ISKANDARYAN

Chapter Seven: Challenges to Political Stability of the State and Society: Russia in Conflicts and with Imposed Sanctions
ASHOT ALEKSANYAN

Chapter Eight: The Priorities of Ukraine’s Integration Strategy in Times of Interstate Conflict and Hybrid War Transformations: A Challenging Partnership and Uneven Confrontation
ASHOT ALEKSANYAN

Chapter Nine: Cross-Country Analysis of the Stability Index of Political Systems of the Regional Countries
ARUSYAK ALEKSANYAN

Selected Bibliography

Biography

Arusyak Aleksanyan is a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, a Lecturer, and Head of the Research Department at the Centre for European Studies of Yerevan State University. She also delivers lectures at the Chair of Political Science, International Relations, and History of the International Scientific Educational Center of the Republic of Armenia National Academy of Sciences. Her main areas of interest include comparative political analysis, European integration processes, indices of democracy and political stability, research methods. She developed a methodology to estimate political stability - the Stability Index of Political Systems - in 2009. Additionally, in 2012, Arusyak developed the methodology for the Index of Democracy Level within the research programme of the Caucasus Research Resource Centre in Armenia and the Carnegie Corporation in New York. Seven works have been published under her professional editorship and co-authorship, six of which are bilingual.