The fundamental macro-challenges that Armenia faces today are defined by geopolitical, institutional, and socio-political factors. Armenia’s security architecture and the challenges to its statehood faces severe complications due to lack of experts and highly-trained practitioners. Democratic governance, institution building, and broad political reforms are crucial to Armenia’s growth. There have been attempts to undertake such reforms, and the political will as well as public support exists to enhance democratic governance and institution building. The issue, however, is the absence of capacity, knowledge, and expertise. Considering the fact that the social sciences in Armenia are underdeveloped, and further considering the fact that the field of political science, specifically, does not properly exist, Armenia suffers from both the absence of educational institutions that can produce the needed experts and scholars as well as research institutes or think-tanks that can mitigate such limitations. In this context, Armenia not only needs an advanced institute in political science, but it also needs such an institute to offer training and capacity building in the following areas: rigorous methodological training, policy-making and policy-analysis, foreign policy analysis (FPA), security studies, military science, and comparative political analysis. As proposed, the establishment of the Center for Political Science Research and Methodology precisely seeks to address these fundamental issues.