Nerses Kopalyan

Dr. Nerses Kopalyan is an associate professor-in-residence of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His fields of specialization include international security, geopolitics, political theory, and philosophy of science.

He has conducted extensive research on polarity, superpower relations, and security studies. He is the author of World Political Systems After Polarity (Routledge, 2017), the co-author of Sex, Power, And Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and co-author of Latinos in Nevada: A Political, Social, and Economic Profile (2021, Nevada University Press).

His current research and academic publication concentrate on geopolitical and great power relations within Eurasia, with specific emphasis on democratic breakthroughs within authoritarian orbits. He has conducted extensive field work in Armenia on the country’s security architecture and its democratization process. He has authored several policy papers for the Government of Armenia and served as voluntary advisor to various state institutions.

Dr. Kopalyan is also a regular contributor to EVN Report. 

The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and Armenia-Azerbaijan
Relations, War for Sovereignty, 2026
Latinos in Nevada: A Political, Economic, and Social Profile, 2021

World Political Systems After Polarity, 2017
Sex, Power and Politics, 2016
In Defense of Edmund Burke’s Aristocratic Order: A Response to Modern Revisionist Conservatism, 2010