Vicken Cheterian is a journalist and political analyst who works for the non-profit governance organisation CIMERA, based in Geneva. He is the author of War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia's Troubled Frontier (C Hurst, 2008)

Recent articles

Georgia's recovery from losses of war and territory will be through a return to the strategy and values that underpinned its democratic revolution, says Vicken Cheterian

A presidential contest between former and aspiring leaders is rooted in the enduring dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, explains Vicken Cheterian.

The roots of Lebanon's political fracture lie in the unresolved legacy of its 1975-90 civil war, says Vicken Cheterian.

Georgia's military plans reveal its ambition to reclaim the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia it lost in the wars of the early 1990s, says Vicken Cheterian.

Serbian views about the prospect of independence for the territory it lost in 1999 are more complex than they often appear, finds Vicken Cheterian in Belgrade.