Böcker i Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel / Societies and States in Transformation-serien

In the course of the past ten years, there has been a significant change in the roles, perceptions and practices of key human rights actors in Armenia. There has been a rise in civic, rights and legal consciousness among the citizens. This has, in turn, led to frequent outbreaks of protests and the 2018 Velvet Revolution.

European organizations - OSCE, Council of Europe, and EU with its ENP - have been actively engaged in the democratization process in Armenia. By analyzing their achievements and challenges, this book explains how projects overlap or reveal an interlocking or interblocking nature, and when they cause unintended side effects.

This book provides multidisciplinary analysis of historically determined and currently widespread migration processes of Armenians around the world. The volume explores construction of transnational Armenian migratory networks, motivation of Armenian migrants, socio-economic and gender aspects of communication, adaptation, and integration.

This book tells thestory of 64 Circassian families who during the Kosovo conflictin 1989/99 migrated from the Field of Blackbirds to the Republic ofAdygheya in the Russian North Caucasus, their historical "homeland". It focuseson the identification process among the Kosovo Circassians before andafter this migration.