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Retired Foreign Service officer Edward Alexander reveals the details of the six-year hunt for and assassination of former Grand Vizier Talaat Pasha in an internationally covered Berlin murder trial in 1921 after the Armenian Genocide.Link to A Crime of Vengeance
In West Berlin in 1963, while on his first diplomatic assignment, the author was contacted by a Soviet Armenian KGB agent. For fifteen months Alexander and the KGB agent met on both sides of the Berlin Wall.Link to The Serpent and the Bees
Henry Morgenthau was the United States ambassador to Ottoman Turkey between 1913 and 1916. In 1914 he witnessed the Ottoman entry into World War I, followed by the Allied Dardanelles’ campaign, and the genocide of Armenians. His memoir was written in 1918 with the authority of first hand observer and remains one of the classic accounts of World War I.Link to Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
John Evans, formerly U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, gained notoriety in 2005 by publicly dissenting from the stated policy of the Bush and previous Administrations on the 90-year-old issue of the Armenian Genocide. A veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Evans had no Armenian ancestors or family connections ...Link to Truth Held Hostage
Diana Apcar, appointed Honorary Consul to Japan in 1920, became the first Armenian woman diplomat and one of the very first women appointed to any diplomatic post in the twentieth century. In this collection, written nearly 100 years ago, she chronicles the joys, loves and pain of a mountain people buried deep in the Caucasus, whose faith transcended their suffering. Link to From the Book of One Thousand Tales
Baroness Caroline Cox, a member of the British House of Lords and a staunch advocate for Artsakh’s right to self-determination, has concentrated her attention on helping the population of Karabakh and refugees from Karabakh and Azerbaijan for decades. In doing so, she has displayed the highest degree of personal courage to deliver humanitarian aid directly to the war zones.Link to Ethnic Cleansing in Progress
Armenia’s first ambassador to the United States Rouben Shougarian provides pathbreaking analysis of Armenia's Foreign Policy options and the politics of the South Caucasus, Russia, Turkey and Iran. This second edition includes a valuable new foreword bringing the first edition to the present. Link to Does Armenia Need A Foreign Policy?
Senior advisor to the first president of the current Republic of Armenia Gerard J. Libaridian analyzes how conflicting interpretations of history have nurtured competing policies and influenced the future of Armenia and of its relations with its neighbors. The author challenges views of war and diplomacy, of the Genocide and the politics of its recognition, and of national unity and political legitimization. Link to The Challenge of Statehood
Insights from Vartan Oskanian spring from his ten years of government service as Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998–2008. He is also the founder of the Civilitas Foundation. Available in English and Armenian. Link to Speaking to be Heard - English language version
Insights from Vartan Oskanian spring from his ten years of government service as Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998–2008. He is also the founder of the Civilitas Foundation. Available in English and Armenian. Link to Speaking to Be Heard - Armenian language version
