 armine ishkanian senior fellow armine ishkanian is a lecturer in social policy at the centre for civil society and a research associate at the centre for the study of global governance at the london school of economics lse her research focuses on civil society and democracy building and her regional expertise is on the countries of the former soviet union with a particular focus on armenia she has published widely on these issues in journals such as social politics central asian survey journal of international development and diaspora a journal of transnational studies among others her forthcoming book democracybuilding and civil society in postsoviet armenia routledge april 2008 addresses the challenges of democracy building in armenia and the broader postsoviet region  