Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security
Abstract This study analyzes how ongoing conflicts in the Levant and the post‐Soviet South Caucasus have upset the balance of relationships among Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and Russia—and how this could escalate into a major, cross‐regional war.
Emil A. Souleimanov
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Engaging Civil Society in the Nagorno Karabakh Conflict: What Role for the EU and its Neighbourhood Policy? [PDF]
The conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, opposing Armenia and Azerbaijan, is the longest conflict in the OSCE area and a fundamental security threat to the South Caucasus and surrounding regions, preventing full and inclusive economic development and ...
Licínia Simão
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The Armenian road to democracy - Dimensions of a tortuous process. CEPS Working Document No. 267, May 2007 [PDF]
Focusing on the internal and geo-political dimensions of Armenia’s road to democracy, this paper considers the decision-making structure, the role of leadership, the development of political parties and various changes in Armenian civil society.
Freire, Maria Raquel, Simão, Licínia.
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Border politics: the geopolitical implications of opening the Turkish-Armenian border [PDF]
Since the independence of Armenia in 1991, relations with its western neighbor Turkey, has been on the agenda of the country’s successive administrations.
Kotchikian, Asbed
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Beyond Frozen Conflict Scenarios for the Separatist Disputes of Eastern Europe. CEPS Paperback [PDF]
This book forms part of a wider project on the relations between the European Union and Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and in particular the Association Agreements and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTAs) between these three states and the ...
de Waal, Thomas, von Twickel, Nikolaus
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Dynamics of state-building after war: External-internal relations in Eurasian de facto states [PDF]
Post-war state-building is fraught with challenges as “war-makers” pivot to become “state-makers.” Citizen assessments of public good provision and physical security provide a measure of how state-building is perceived internally. State-building may also
Bakke, KM +3 more
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In the clutches of the Kremlin. Azerbaijan’s security policy. OSW COMMENTARY 222 2016-09-14 [PDF]
The changes which have been taking place over the past few years in Azerbaijan’s international environment and the growing concern about internal stability have led to President Ilham Aliyev’s regime to thoroughly revise the country’s security policy by ...
Jarosiewicz, Aleksandra
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The Mujahedin in Nagorno-Karabakh: A Case Study in the Evolution of Global Jihad [PDF]
The current volume of publications dealing with Islamist militancy and terrorism defies belief in terms of its contents. This paper is a modest attempt to direct more attention and interest towards the much overlooked sub-field of historical research ...
Taarnby, Michael
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The Casualties of War: An Excess Mortality Estimate of Lives Lost in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. [PDF]
Karlinsky A, Torrisi O.
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Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: why the ‘black garden’ will not blossom any time soon. Security Policy Brief No. 71, April 2016 [PDF]
After the recent escalation of fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia-backed separatist forces of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh – the bloodiest and most wide-ranging for the last 22 years – the South Caucasus has re-emerged in the ...
Schumacher , Tobias
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