Armenia and Azerbaijan

Laurence Broers is a scholar-practitioner with three decades of experience as a researcher of conflicts in the South Caucasus and practitioner of peacebuilding initiatives in the region. He is an associate fellow at the Russia & Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House, and is the founding editor and co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Caucasus Survey. He has previously worked in a variety of roles with the peacebuilding NGO Conciliation Resources, and has published widely on the politics and conflicts of the South Caucasus.

• Preface to the Second EditionMaps, Figures and TablesTerminologyPrologue: A Short Chronicle of Events, 2020-20251. Out of the Post-Soviet Freeze-Frame: Understanding the Armenian-Azerbaijani Rivalry2. A Violent Unravelling, 1988-19943. Questionable Borders: Territorial Genealogies of Armenia and Azerbaijan4. Borderland into Cornerstone: Karabakh in Armenian and Azerbaijani Geopolitical Cultures5. Unrecognized Reality: The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from De Facto State to Dissolution, 1991-20236. Regime Politics and Rivalry7. Strategic Interactions, the Military Balance and the Failure of Deterrence8. Geopolitics, Polarity and the Armenian-Azerbaijani Rivalry, 1994-20209. Multilateral Mediation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict, 1992-202010. Contesting a New Order: The Politics of Regionalization, 2020-2025Epilogue: Beyond Rivalry?NotesIndex