Overview

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, Armenia’s 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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Author:   Vicken Cheterian (University of Geneva)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.351kg
ISBN:  

9780755653461

ISBN 10:   0755653467
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Maps List of Contributors Vicken Cheterian, Karabakh and a New Age of Wars, an Introduction Chapter 1: Vicken Cheterian, Armenia’s 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-Karabakh’s 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 Armenia’s 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 Sukyasyan, 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

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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, Russia’s Troubled Frontier (2009), and Open Wounds, Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide (2015).

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