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The 44-Day War

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Struggle for Nagorno-Karabakh

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The 44-Day War

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Struggle for Nagorno-Karabakh

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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.

Table of Contents

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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

Product details

Published Feb 19 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9780755653454
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Vicken Cheterian

Vicken Cheterian is a lecturer in history and inte…

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