“Five years and 400 pages later, this arrived today. Presentation dates coming soon!”, wrote Laurence Broers on his Facebook page.
Laurence Broers is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Caucasus Survey, the first dedicated scholarly journal for the Caucasus region, published since January 2015 by Taylor & Francis.
He is also research associate at the Centre for Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus at the School of Oriental & African Studies, where he completed doctoral studies on conflict and state building in post-Soviet Georgia in 2004 and is currently engaged in research on Armenian-Azerbaijani relations.
He also serves as a Caucasus programme associate at London-based independent organization Conciliation Resources, where he previously managed a range of Track-2 initiatives supporting the Nagorny Karabakh peace process 2008-13.
He has authored both academic and a wide range of policy briefings and papers relating to South Caucasus conflicts and peace processes.
“Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry” is Broers first book.
Analyses the 30-year conflict for control over the contested territory of Nagorny Karabakh
- Provides a complete overview of historical, territorial, domestic, strategic, international and mediation perspectives
- Moves beyond chronological narrative and comparative analysis of post-Soviet conflicts
- Draws on the author’s experience of over a decade as a practitioner of Armenian–Azerbaijani peace-building efforts
- Informed by fieldwork conducted in 2014–16 across the conflict and interviews with political and societal actors
- Uses theoretical frameworks to draw comparisons with other international, long-term rivalries, such as India–Pakistan and Arab states–Israel
The Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict for control of the mountainous territory of Nagorny Karabakh is the longest-running dispute in post-Soviet Eurasia. Laurence Broers shows how decades of dynamic territorial politics, shifting power relations, international diffusion and unsuccessful mediation efforts have contributed to the resilience of this stubbornly unresolved dispute.
Looking beyond tabloid tropes of ‘frozen conflict’ or ‘Russian land-grab’, Broers unpacks the unresolved territorial issues of the 1990s and the strategic rivalry that has built up around them since.
