Armenia and Azerbaijan : anatomy of a rivalry / Laurence Broers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broers, Laurence, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994.

Armenia (Republic)--Foreign relations--Azerbaijan.

Armenia (Republic).

Azerbaijan--Foreign relations--Armenia (Republic).

Azerbaijan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 400 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Laurence Broers shows how more than 20 years of dynamic territorial politics, shifting power relations, international diffusion and unsuccessful mediation efforts have contributed to the resilience of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict for control of the mountainous territory of Nagorny Karabakh.

The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict is the longest-running dispute in Eurasia. This study looks beyond tabloid tropes of ‘frozen conflict’ or ‘Russian land-grab’, to unpack both unresolved territorial issues left over from the 1990s and the strategic rivalry that has built up around them since then. Unstable and overlapping conceptions of homeland have characterised the Armenian and Azerbaijani republics since their first emergence in 1918. Seventy years of incorporation into the Soviet Union did not resolve these issues. As they emerged from the Soviet collapse in 1991, Armenians and Azerbaijanis fought for sovereignty over Nagorny Karabakh, leading to its secession from Azerbaijan, the deaths of more than 25,000 people and the forced displacement of more than a million more. Since then, the conflict has evolved into an ‘enduring rivalry’, a particularly intractable form of long-term militarised competition between two states. Combining perspectives rarely found in a single volume, the study shows how these outcomes became intractably embedded within the regime politics, strategic interactions and international linkages of post-war Armenia and Azerbaijan. Far from ‘frozen’, this book demonstrates how more than two decades of dynamic conceptions of territory, shifting power relations, international diffusion and unsuccessful mediation efforts have contributed to the resilience of this stubbornly unresolved dispute – one of the most intractable of our times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Maps, Figures and Tables

Terminology

Introduction: Beyond ‘Frozen Conflict’

1 A Violent Unravelling

2 Questionable Borders

3 Borderland into Cornerstone

4 Displacements

5 Regime Politics and Rivalry

6 Truncated Asymmetry

7 An Exception in Eurasia

8 Unrecognised Reality

9 ‘Land for Peace’

Afterword: Rivalry Unending?

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

9781474450522

ISBN:

1-4744-7654-6

1-4744-5054-7

OCLC:

1306541170