Hayk Kotanjian

Hayk S. Kotanjian (Armenian: Հայկ Սարգսի Քոթանջյան, born in 1945 in Gyumri, Armenia) is an Armenian military diplomat, academic and political adviser. Since 2005, he has headed the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) in Yerevan. He also chairs the Political Science Association of Armenia, and the Board of Conferment of Academic Degrees in Political Science and International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kotanjian holds the military rank of Lieutenant General of Armenian Armed Forces and diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. His academic qualifications include doctoral degree in Political Science & Security Studies from Russia's Academy of Public Administration (1992), PhD in Managerial Psychology from the Academy of Social Sciences (Moscow, 1981), and BA/MSc in Engineering Cybernetics from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, Armenia, as well as Diploma in Counter-terrorism from the US National Defense University (2004).

In 1992, Kotanjian founded the Defense Policy Department of Armenia's Ministry of Defense (1992), and helped establish Armenia's defense attaché offices in foreign countries as part of diplomatic representations of Republic of Armenia abroad. From 1998-2002, he held the position of Armenia's first Defense, Army, Air Force and Naval Attaché of the Republic of Armenia to the United States of America. During his tenure as attaché, he developed the blueprint of the first defense and security think tank in the Armenian defense system, the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the Armenian Ministry of Defense (INSS).

In 1994, Kotanjian established and became the first editor-in-Chief of “Armenian Army” (Armenian: Հայկական Բանակ) — Armenian Army’s first academic journal with the focus on defense studies; in 2007, he founded “Working Notebooks” (Armenian: Աշխատանքային Տետրեր), Armenia’s first academic journal for strategic studies. In the 2000s, he directed Armenia's state program to develop the country's National Security Strategy, and is considered a key contributor to Armenia's military doctrine.

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