Resilience and Political Stability in the Shadow of Hybrid War and Peace

The book offers a systematic and empirical assessment of political stability across seven regional states: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Iran, Russia, and Ukraine. Using a newly constructed analytical tool, the Stability Index of Political Systems, it introduces a composite methodology that combines political, economic, and social indicators to measure and interpret stability levels across different regimes and historical phases. Through individual country analyses and a cross-country comparison, the book reveals the diverse factors influencing state resilience, the impact of external actors, authoritarian tendencies, and post-conflict realities. Special attention is paid to the consequences of the 2020 Artsakh War, Russia's aggression in Ukraine, and regional geopolitical shifts. The book offers an innovative methodological lens and provides a rare comparative perspective, grounded in both theory and quantitative analysis. It fills a critical gap by translating qualitative political trends into measurable insights, making it a valuable resource for academic and policy-related applications.

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.