The 2023 Security Summit: Rethinking Armenia’s Geopolitical and Defense Trajectory convened leading experts, defense professionals, and civic actors to address Armenia’s deepening security crisis and chart a path forward. Hosted by the Institute for Security Analysis on November 28–29 in Yerevan, the summit featured discussions on hybrid warfare, regional threats, institutional reform, and strategic alternatives for safeguarding sovereignty.
Day 1
Panels
Security and Geopolitics
Panel I: Armenia’s Road to 2020: Nurturing Failure, Azerbaijan’s Aggression, and Russia’s Role
· Dr. Stepan Astourian, Turpanjian Center for Policy Analysis at the American University of Armenia
· Dr. Eduard Abrahamyan, Institute for Security Analysis
Panel II: The Emerging Geopolitical Order in the Caucasus: The Rise — and Threat — of Eurasianism
· Dr. Eduard Abrahamyan, Institute for Security Analysis
· Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Glen Grant, National Security Expert
Politics
Panel III: Hybrid War: Disrupting Security, Society and Politics
· Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Glen Grant, National Security Expert
Panel IV: Strategic Disaster: The Dangers of Appeasement
· Dr. Thomas Young, Defense Security Cooperation University
· Colonel Vladimir Milenski, Ministry of Defense of Bulgaria
Day 2
Next Steps and Policy Solutions
Panel V: Salvaging Statehood: A Crisis Roadmap for the Armenian Republic
· Dr. Thomas Young, Defense Security Cooperation University
· Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Glen Grant, National Security Expert
Panel VI: Next Steps: A Legal Strategy for Artsakh
· Talin Hitik, Lawyer and International Law Expert
Panel VII: Shaping a Reform Agenda: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Territorial Defense
· Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Glen Grant, National Security Expert
· Hratchya Arzumanyan, National Security Expert