Foreword - Salpi Ghazarian

Introduction: An unlikely transition? - Laurence Broers
Chapter 1. Velvet is not a colour: Armenia's democratic transition in a global context - Anna Ohanyan
Chapter 2: Thirty years of protest: how Armenia's legacy of political and civic protests prepared the Velvet Revolution - Mikayel Zolyan
Chapter 3. How Serzh Sargsyan and the Republican Party of Armenia lost control of a competitive authoritarian system- Laurence Broers
Chapter 4: Armenian civil society: growing pains, honing skills and possible pitfalls - Jenny Paturyan
Chapter 5. Donning the Velvet: Nonviolent resistance in the 2018 Armenian Revolution - Jonathan Pinckney
Chapter 6. Armenia's transition: The challenges of geography, geopolitics and multipolarity - Richard Giragosian
Chapter 7. Preserving the alliance against tall odds: Armenia's Velvet Revolution as a challenge to Russia - Pavel K. Baev
Chapter 8. Political patriarchy: Gendered hierarchies, paternalism, and public space in Armenia's 'Velvet Revolution' - Tamar Shirinian
Chapter 9: Democratization and diaspora: The Velvet Revolution and the Armenian nation Abroad - Kristin Cavoukian
Conclusion: What's Next? Authoritarian Reserves and Risks in a Democratic State - Anna Ohanyan
Index