It’s been more than half a year since Azerbaijan won a decisive military victory over Armenia by re-taking Azerbaijani districts occupied since the early 1990s.
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During the latest round of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which came to an end in November following a Russian-brokered ceasefire, Azerbaijan enjoyed support
Transforming Soviet administrative borders into formal international state borders is no easy task, but it is being made more difficult in the case of the Armenian-Azerbaijani one because Armenian politicians are seeking to exploit the issue to increase Russian involvement in the hopes that will allow Armenia to recover more territory.
In the beginning of this month, the Armenian National Assembly failed to elect the ruling bloc’s prime ministerial candidate. As dictated by the constitution, the parliament was dissolved. The rejected candidate, Nikol Pashinyan, deliberately resigned as prime minster to trigger the dissolution of parliament and clear the way for a snap election.
How far is President Joe Biden’s administration willing to go in a dispute in a remote, mountainous ethnic enclave? Will it become something like Barack Obama’s adventures in Syria? The American people are about to find out.
Six months have passed since Azerbaijan abruptly ended an almost 30-year war with Armenia. The final 44-day blow, dealt in an overwhelming display of pyrotechnic proportions, restored Baku’s control over seven districts occupied by Armenia since 1993-1994.
The victory of Azerbaijan in the 2020 Second Karabakh War revealed a new triangular axis in the Greater Middle East. Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan have developed strategic partnerships over the last two decades.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, making his second visit to Baku and Yerevan this year, says that Tehran supports the territorial integrity of both Armenia and Azerbaijan and does not want to see any border changes in the region, especially along its own northern frontier.
After the tragic experience of the Second World War and Nazism, modern civilized society, realizing the seriousness and the ultimate consequences of the abovementioned approach, now avoids “humiliation and superiority” and adheres to a tolerant attitude towards so-called “others.”
Territorial disputes and border issues in the South Caucasus are the major threat to stability and security in the region. All the international borders became problematic after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It is worth especially noting the border issue between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as two states could not start the process of the delimitation and demarcation of the state border because of the Karabakh conflict.
An often-overlooked element comes from Armenia and its supporters, who exploit the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an attempt to score political points regarding the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Quickly after a Russia-brokered ceasefire agreement was announced last November to end the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, some Russian media printed the text. One of the provisions was that Armenia would, by November 20, “return to the Azerbaijani side the territory held by the Armenian side in the Gazakh region of the Azerbaijani republic.”
All other major American Jewish organizations refused to collaborate with the Armenian lobby and target Azerbaijan. In fact, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s (SWC), a globally acclaimed champion against antisemitism, discrimination
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan spans several decades and led to a war between the two nations at the end of 2020. Roland Benedikter examines whether South Tyrol in northern Italy might offer a viable model for establishing lasting peace in the region.
The last time Armenians went to the polls, in 2018, they were voting optimistically. Following Nikol Pashinyan’s successful toppling of the old regime via street protests, voters gave him an overwhelming
In the city of Dmani, a quarrel has turned into a brawl and struggle between the Christian and Muslim communities. The city is on the road between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The intervention of the Mufti of Eastern Georgia and the representative of the Patriarchate of Georgia was decisive. Inter-ethnic struggles, a legacy of the Soviet past.
When we say "identity", we mean the answers individuals and society as a whole give to the question "Who are you?" and "What are your origins?". Every person is an individual belonging to some family, community, organization, nation and state, regardless of whether that person's sense of belonging is weak or strong. A nation is a union formed by people who speak the same language, have a common past, believe in the same creation myth, and call a certain piece of land their homeland.
The United States should recognize the potential contribution to enhancing regional security of Azerbaijan and Georgia, which would grant them access to greater security cooperation and military assistance.
A note before I start: since I look at the concept of national identity through the prism of the word “nation” here, I will not differentiate between a “nation” and a “people”. Another note: the definition “Azerbaijanis” is used here to refer to this nation in different periods of its history.
Soviet-era maps don’t provide a clear answer to just where the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan lies in the Syunik district which Baku refers to as Zengezur. Instead, a Soviet military map assigns territory to Azerbaijan that a Soviet topographic map says belongs to Armenia.
One of the main reasons behind the current situation in Karabakh is the increase in the number of politically active Armenians in the region north of the Araz two centuries ago, and the decrease in the number of likewise inclined Azerbaijanis there.
The implementation of the trilateral agreement brokered by Russia on the night of November 9-10, 2020, between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues in fits and starts. Most near-term questions have been resolved. How intermediate-term issues turn out depend upon the results of the snap parliamentary elections called in June by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. As for the longer-term outcome, this is more difficult to estimate, and it is path-dependent upon those elections. In this regard, events on the ground—but not only the elections—are still in control, even if these are no longer military events.
For 26 years, the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) worked fruitlessly to bring the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict to a peaceful resolution. Then, in just six weeks, the Second Karabakh War radically altered the conflict and the Minsk Group was shunted aside.
If we don’t start to unravel where this expanding global anti-intellectual, anti-scientific rhetoric comes from, we may find ourselves in a very difficult situation in a time when the world