Anna Ohanyan is a Fulbright Scholar (2012-13) and the Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. She is the author of Networked Regionalism as Conflict Management (Stanford University Press, 2015) and editor of Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond (Georgetown University Press, 2018). Professor Ohanyan has published widely on global governance, security studies and conflict management in scholarly and policy journals, and has consulted for the UN Foundation, World Bank, National Intelligence Council Project at Maryland University, the US Department of State, the Carter Center, and USAID.
Laurence Broers is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and an associate fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House. He has a decade's experience as a practitioner of peacebuilding and human rights advocacy in the South Caucasus, and his research interests include intractable conflicts and peacebuilding in post-Soviet Eurasia, the politics of unrecognised states, and the critical geopolitics of post-Soviet space. He is the author of Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming) and the co-editor of The Unrecognised Politics of De Facto States in the Post-Soviet Space (Caucasus Institute, 2015) and Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia (Routledge, 2018). He is also co-founder and chief editor of the triannual journal Caucasus Survey.

Foreword - Salpi Ghazarian

Introduction: An unlikely transition? - Laurence Broers
Chapter 1. Velvet is not a colour: Armenia's democratic transition in a global context - Anna Ohanyan
Chapter 2: Thirty years of protest: how Armenia's legacy of political and civic protests prepared the Velvet Revolution - Mikayel Zolyan
Chapter 3. How Serzh Sargsyan and the Republican Party of Armenia lost control of a competitive authoritarian system- Laurence Broers
Chapter 4: Armenian civil society: growing pains, honing skills and possible pitfalls - Jenny Paturyan
Chapter 5. Donning the Velvet: Nonviolent resistance in the 2018 Armenian Revolution - Jonathan Pinckney
Chapter 6. Armenia's transition: The challenges of geography, geopolitics and multipolarity - Richard Giragosian
Chapter 7. Preserving the alliance against tall odds: Armenia's Velvet Revolution as a challenge to Russia - Pavel K. Baev
Chapter 8. Political patriarchy: Gendered hierarchies, paternalism, and public space in Armenia's 'Velvet Revolution' - Tamar Shirinian
Chapter 9: Democratization and diaspora: The Velvet Revolution and the Armenian nation Abroad - Kristin Cavoukian
Conclusion: What's Next? Authoritarian Reserves and Risks in a Democratic State - Anna Ohanyan
Index