Armenia and Azerbaijan

Dr Laurence Broers is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus, School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the co-editor of three volumes, most recently, with Galina Yemelianova, of 'The Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus' (forthcoming). He is also the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Caucasus Survey (Taylor & Francis). He has extensive professional experience working in policy analysis and managing Armenian-Azerbaijani peacebuilding initiatives at the civil society level.

• Maps, figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 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?.

Without any doubt, Laurence Broers is one of our foremost experts on the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh. Broers is a scholar-practitioner who has worked for over a decade for the London-based peacebuilding organization Conciliation Resources, which for years has provided some of the best analysis of this protracted conflict. It was exciting to learn that Broers finally amalgamated his years-long experience in a book aptly titled Armenia and Azerbaijan. Anatomy of a Rivalry. The book does not disappoint: This is a superb book on the topic – nuanced, empirically rich and conceptually convincing...It is essential and highly recommended reading for everyone interested in this conflict. What’s more, it is also a very rewarding read for anyone interested in understanding protracted conflicts and how we should analyse them.