Dr. Erik Davtyan

Since 02/2026 – Institute of Slavic and Caucasus Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany), Research Fellow

Since 08/2021 - Faculty of Political Science, University of Iceland (Iceland), Visiting Professor

12/2023 – 01/2026 – Faculty of International Relations, Yerevan State University (Armenia), Coordinator of International Cooperation

09/2018 – 01/2026 - Faculty of International Relations, Yerevan State University (Armenia), Assistant Professor

08/2024 – 12/2024 – College of Humanities and Social Sciences, American University of Armenia (Armenia), Adjunct Lecturer

03/2020 – 12/2020 - Center for Strategic Research, Yerevan State University (Armenia), Junior Research Fellow

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Abrahamyan, E., Davtyan, E. and Galstyan, N. S. (2026). Sitting on Two Chairs: Armenia’s Foreign Policy Through the Lenses of National Roles and Small State Status-Seeking. Europe-Asia Studies. 78(6), pp. 980-1004, https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2026.2687608External link

Hovsepyan, L., Davtyan, E. (2026). Beyond the ‘big brother – little brother’ paradigm: revisiting the nature of the Turkish–Azerbaijani relationship. Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2026.2659808External link

Sukiasyan N., Davtyan E. (2025). The South Caucasus Reconstructed: Polarity and Regional Security Order after the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020. The International Spectator, 60(4), 120-137, https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2025.2500407External link.

Davtyan E. (2025). One conflict, different meanings: a comparative analysis of Armenian and Azerbaijani narratives of victory in Nagorno-Karabakh wars. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 36(1), 160-184, https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2408704External link.

Davtyan, E. (2025). Pro-Western or pro-Russian? Elections, foreign policy and inter-party rivalry in Georgia. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 33(2), pp. 481-493, https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2024.2382158External link.

Davtyan, E. (2025). Being small in a large club: unpacking Armenia’s actorness in the Eurasian Economic Union. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 25(2), pp. 211-227, https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2023.2273495External link.

Davtyan, E. (2024). Lessons that Lead to War: Foreign Policy Learning and Military Escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. Problems of Post-Communism, 71(1), pp. 26-36, https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2023.2183410External link.

Davtyan, E. (2021). Agency and perceptions of smallness: understanding Georgia’s foreign policy behaviour. Caucasus Survey. 9(2), pp. 120-139, https://doi.org/10.1080/23761199.2020.1861514External link.

11/2025 – Partner country project director, Advanced Research Workshop “Survival Strategies of Small States in a Changing Security Environment” at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece (funded by NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme)

12/2024 – 01/2026 – Research project “Applied Studies on Contemporary Azerbaijan” (funded by the Higher Education and Science Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia) (member of the research team)

05/2024 – 08/2024 – Research project “Understanding Armenian and Azerbaijani narratives of victory: a comparative case study analysis” (funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

11/2023 and 11/2024 – Awardee in the “Contest for encouraging young scientists for publication of academic articles” (awarded by the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia within the framework of the “Young Scientists’ Support Program”)

12/2022 – 12/2023 ­– Research project on the repercussions of the 2020 War in Nagorno-Karabakh on the nature and structure of the regional order in the South Caucasus (funded by the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia within the framework of the “Young Scientists’ Support Program”) (member of the research team)

10/2021 – 01/2022 – Research project “To escalate or not to escalate? Lessons of the past, foreign policy learning and the 2020 war in Nagorno Karabakh” (funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

10/2020 – 05/2021 - Research project “In Quest for International Status: Explaining Armenia’s Foreign Policy” (funded by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) (member of the research team)

• Conflicts and Politics in the South Caucasus
• Small States in International Politics
• Foreign Policy Analysis
• EU Eastern Neighborhood Policy