Professor Gerard Jirair Libaridian

Historian Gerard Jirair Libaridian has authored and edited a number of books, most recently Modern Armenia and The Challenge of Statehood. He has published and lectured extensively on the modern history and contemporary affairs of the Caucasus and the Middle East.

Until recently he held the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History and was Director of the Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

From 1991 to 1997, Dr. Libaridian served as adviser, then senior adviser (foreign and security policies) to the former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrossian, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1994) of the newly independent republic, and Ambassador-at-Large as well as secretary of Armenia’s Security Council (1994-1997).

He is currently working on a new volume, “Anatomy of Conflict. Nagorno Karabakh and the New World Order.”