Samvel Farmanyan specializes in Japan’s post-war transformation and Japanese ethnic identity, modern history of Armenia and the Armenia-Turkey normalization process. His academic and teaching career was interrupted from 2005-2021 due to his active engagement in domestic politics.
Samvel Farmanyan served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of the NA of Armenia and Press Secretary of the President of Armenia. He also served as a Member of the Armenian Parliament for two consecutive terms heading the Armenian delegation to the “Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee” and representing Armenia at various inter-parliamentary bodies, including PACE, EuroNest etc, as well as heading different parliamentary friendship groups. In that period of his career, Samvel Farmanyan also headed the leading media entities in Armenia.
His most recent book - a bestseller - covers “Football Diplomacy”, a diplomatic process aimed at normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey.
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My view on the three concepts below
Education:
Educated society is the best shield against any threat – both internal and external.
Outreach
It is impossible to make a change if your truth is not shared by others: argue the people around to share it.
Publications:
Monographs
“Alone Against Destiny: The backstage of Football Diplomacy”, Yerevan, Newmag, 2023 (438 p.)
“The Japanese Miracle and the Japanese”, Yerevan, Hayagitak, 2012 (226 p.)
Articles
On interrelation of Japanese ethnic identity and the postwar economic development of Japan (part 1). 2003. Science and Technology, n. 481, 2003. 25-33,
On interrelation of Japanese ethnic identity and the postwar economic development of Japan (part 2). 2003. Science and Technology, n. 482, 2003. 2-6
Several aspects of modernization and Japanese ethnic identity, 2012. “Kantegh, n. 1, 109-114,
Theoretical aspects of correlation between Japan’s postwar modernization and transformation of Japanese ethnic identity. 2011. History and Culture: Journal of Armenian studies. pp. 286-297: