Kuznetsov O. Y. The history of transnational Armenian terrorism in the twentieth century (2016)

Kuznetsov O. Y. The history of transnational Armenian terrorism in the twentieth century: a historico-criminological study. Translated from Russian into English. Berlin: Verlag Dr. Köster, 2016, 332 p. ISBN 9783895749155

The term “Armenian terrorism” as an independent definition of the entire spectrum of contemporary social studies first publicly appeared and was officially put into circulation in the United States of America in 1982 by Andrew Corsun, a member of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Threat Analysis Division (DS/TAD). He wrote an article in the August issue of The U.S. Department of State Bulletin for that year called “Armenian Terrorism: A Profile,” which immediately turned this phrase into a sociopolitical neologism. Publication of this article aroused such a wide public response and mass protests from the Armenian Diaspora throughout the world that editorial board was compelled to apologize and inform its readers on the title page of the September issue (admittedly in small print) that “the article does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. State Department, and the interpretive comments in the article are solely the choice of the author.” Nevertheless, thanks to Andrew Corsun, the term “Armenian terrorism” has assumed a place of its own in contemporary political science and remains current to this day, particularly in Europe and the New World (to which Turkey and Azerbaijan also belong)