Razmik Panossian ( hy, Ռազմիկ Փանոսեան, born 1964) is a Canadian-Armenian historian and political scientist.

Career

An ethnic Armenian, Panossian was born in

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, Lebanon and raised in Canada in a family "engaged with rmeniancommunity affairs." He is fluent in English, French, and Armenian. He received his Ph.D. from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 milli ...

(LSE) in 2002. His thesis was titled "The evolution of multilocal national identity and the contemporary politics of nationalism: Armenia and its diaspora." He was director of policy at the

International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development The International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights & Democracy), was created to be a non-partisan, independent Canadian institution. It was established by an act of the Canadian parliament in 1988 to "encourage and suppor ...

and has served as an international consultant, including at the

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(UNDP). He has lectured at the LSE and at the

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. Panossian, currently based in Portugal, has been the director of the department of Armenian communities for the

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since 2013.

Publications

''The Armenians''

Panossian is the author of ''The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars'' (), published by the

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in 2006. The book was widely acclaimed for its extensive and balanced coverage of Armenian history and national identity. James R. Russell praised the book in his review as the "most meticulously researched and scholarly study of the development of Armenian national identity ever written in any language; and it is also the best general study of the Armenians I have read."

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wrote that despite his slight objection, the book is "a remarkably balanced, empirically sound, and theoretically engaging one." William Safran wrote of the book: "a first-rate piece of scholarship. It is exhaustively documented; its footnote references alone are accompanied by details that greatly amplify and complement the text, and the provision of population statistics and other hard data is balanced by numerous poetic evocations of Armenian feelings. The book may well serve as a model for the study of other diaspora nations."

Books

* Panossian, Razmik (2006). ''The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars''. New York: Columbia University Press. .

Edited Volumes

* Schwartz, Donald V; Panossian, Razmik (1994). ''Nationalism and history: the politics of nationbuilding in post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia''. Toronto, Ont.: Center for Russian and East European Studies. .

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Book Chapters

* Panossian, Razmik (2004). "Homeland–diaspora relations and identity differences." ''The Armenians: Past and Present in the Making of National Identity''. * Panossian, Razmik. "Courting a diaspora: Armenia-diaspora relations since 1998." In ''International Migration and Sending Countries'', pp. 140-168. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2003. * Panossian, Razmik. "Post-Soviet Armenia. Nationalism and its Discontent (s)." ''After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States, ed. Lowell W. Barrington'' (2006): 225-247. * Panossian, Razmik. "The diaspora and the Karabagh movement: oppositional politics between the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Armenian National Movement." In ''The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh'', pp. 155-177. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2001.

Journal articles

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Dissertation

* Panossian, Razmik. "The evolution of multilocal national identity and the contemporary politics of nationalism: Armenia and its diaspora." PhD diss., London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002.

References

Living people 1964 births Canadian people of Armenian descent Armenian political scientists Canadian political scientists Writers from Beirut Lebanese emigrants to Canada Lebanese people of Armenian descent Ethnic Armenian academics {{Authority control