The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 was a major armed conflict between the two modern, regular armies of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This open access book examines the causes, and consequences of the war Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. The first part of the book includes chapters discussing why the ceasefire regime failed after long twenty-six years, international mediation and diplomacy, the geopolitical tensions, Armenias failure to anticipate the coming war, and emergence of autocratic rule in Azerbaijan. The second part of the book looks at international actors, including the surprising behaviour of Russia, Turkish role and interests, and the lack of American Christian solidarity towards Armenians. The third part of the book looks at the consequences of the war, including the post-war diplomatic initiatives, the dramatic failure of the Russian peacekeeping mission leading to the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a comparative study of Nagorno-Karabakh with the Russia-Ukraine wars. Including specialists from various disciplines and from several countries, the book sheds light on the Second Karabakh War, the future of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and placing it in the broader international context of a new era of inter-state wars.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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A multidisciplinary analysis of the course, causes and potential consequences of the war, including contributors from both sides of the war, put into geopolitical context.
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Vicken Cheterian, Karabakh and a New Age of Wars, an Introduction
Chapter 1: Vicken Cheterian, Armenias Geopolitical Dilemma
Chapter 2: Kevork Oskanian, The Lost Decades: Negotiating Nagorno-Karabakh
between Assumption, Power, and Interest
Chapter 3: Sevinj Samadzade, Between the State and Civil Society: A road to
the Second Karabakh War in Azerbaijan
Chapter 4: Zhirayr Amirkhanyan, Failure of Western-style Defense Reform in
Armenia in the Interwar Period
Chapter 5: Simon Maghakyan Monumental Lessons from Nakhichevan for the Future
of Nagorno-Karabakhs Past
Chapter 6: Naira Sahakyan, Armenian Official Discourses on Karabakh Conflict
Chapter 7: Arif Yunusov, Azerbaijani Clans and Power Concentration under
Ilham Aliyev
Chapter 8: Joel Veldkamp, A Curious Lack of Solidarity: The 2020 Karabakh War
and Christian Civil Society in the United States
Chapter 9: Asbed Kotchikian, Unintended Consequences of Armenias Policy
Making Rationale Before and During the 2020 War
Chapter 10: Tigran Yegavian, Does Armenia have a diaspora strategy?
Chapter 11: Sheila Paylan, Taking a Human Rights-Based Approach After the
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Chapter 12: Cengiz Çandar, A Revisionist Turkey in the South Caucasus: Why
and How?
Chapter 13: Laurence Broers, After Minsk: Armenian-Azerbaijani Diplomacy
following the Second Karabakh War
Chapter 14: Narek Sukiasyan, Russia and Karabakh: The Unreliable Ally?
Chapter 15: Hovsep Babayan, Russian Peacekeeping Mission in Nagorno-Karabakh
Chapter 16: Leonid Nersisyan and Cerwyn Moore, Military performance and
failures in the Second Karabakh and the Russo-Ukrainian wars
Vicken Cheterian is a lecturer in history and international relations at The University of Geneva. He is the author of War and Peace in the Caucasus, Russias Troubled Frontier (2009), and Open Wounds, Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide (2015).
