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The International Politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict

The Original “Frozen Conflict” and European Security

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Editors:
  1. Svante E. Cornell

    1. School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, USA

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  • Marks the first study of the international politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and emphasizes the geopolitics of the Caucasus region

  • Explains the importance and potential of this conflict to generate insecurity in a crucial area relevant to the interests of Russia, Iran, Turkey, Europe and the United States

  • Provides an overview of the international legal aspects of the conflict, the status of negotiations, the role of major regional powers, and the place of the conflict in regional and European security

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict and European Security

    • Svante E. Cornell
    Pages 1-21

  3. International Law and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

    • Johanna Popjanevski
    Pages 23-47

  4. Nagorno-Karabakh Between Old and New Geopolitics

    • James Sherr
    Pages 49-69

  5. Russia: A Declining Counter-Change Force

    • Pavel K. Baev
    Pages 71-87

  6. Turkey’s Role: Balancing the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict and Turkish-Armenian Relations

    • Svante E. Cornell
    Pages 89-105

  7. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Policy Toward the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

    • Brenda Shaffer
    Pages 107-124

  8. Missing in Action: US Policy

    • Stephen Blank
    Pages 125-148

  9. The European Union and the Armenian–Azerbaijani Conflict: Lessons Not Learned

    • Svante E. Cornell
    Pages 149-172

  10. Moving Beyond Deadlock in the Peace Talks

    • Nina Caspersen
    Pages 173-194

  11. Reversing Escalation: The Local and International Politics of the Conflict

    • Svante E. Cornell
    Pages 195-211

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-244
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About this book

This book frames the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in the context of European and international security. It is the first book to focus on the politics of the conflict rather than the dispute itself. Since their emergence twenty years ago, this and other “frozen conflicts” of Eurasia have been affected by transformations in European security, and many ways absorbed into an ever fiercer geopolitical struggle for influence. The wars in Georgia and Ukraine brought greater attention to some unresolved conflicts, but not to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. As the contributors to this volume argue, the conflict merits much greater European attention, for several reasons: it is on a path of escalation, existing mediation regimes are dysfunctional, and as both Georgia and Ukraine have showed, any outbreak of serious fighting will force the EU to respond. This book thus explains the interlocking interests of Russia, Turkey, Iran, the EU and United States in the conflict, and analyzes the negotiation process and the conflict’s international legal aspects.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, USA

    Svante E. Cornell

About the editor

Svante E. Cornell is Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, US, and the Institute for Security and Development Policy. He is author of Azerbaijan since Independence and Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus.

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