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UNWITTING PARTNER TO CONFLICT: WAR IN GEORGIA REVEALS ARMENIA'S RELIANCE ON REGIONAL STABILITY
by Richard Giragosian
For nearly a decade and a half, Armenia enjoyed a period of relative stability in the region, with little or no abrupt shifts or sudden threats to security. In fact, since the 1992 ceasefire with Azerbaijan, it has been only inner turmoil that has threatened stability—from routinely failed elections, to an act of terror (parliament 1999), to last spring's horror in the streets of the capital.