Analyzes the causes and implications of one of the bloodiest and most intractable disputes to emerge from the breakup of the USSR.
Introduction Historical Origins of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict, 1988-1991 Changing Regional Dynamics in the Post-Soviet Period The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict, 1992-1994 The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Since 1994 Future Prospects and Conclusions Appendixes Selected Bibliography Index
MICHAEL P. CROISSANT is an Earhart Fellow in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. He has published numerous articles on the southern former Soviet republics in Strategic Review, Eurasian Studies, National Security Studies Quarterly, Comparative Strategy, and other journals.
"It is a well written and well organised survey of the history of
the conflict, which makes good use of the available secondary
sources....[A] welcome synthesis of much of the existing literature
on the subject, which can claime few booklength
studies....Croissant's book is an excellent survey which will give
readers unfamiliar with the Karabakh dispute a working knowledge of
the major issues and players."-Survival
?Croissant's exhaustively footnoted study provides a real
perspective to the conflict in the Caucasus.?-Defense & Foreign
Affairs Strategic Policy
?It is a well written and well organised survey of the history of
the conflict, which makes good use of the available secondary
sources....[A] welcome synthesis of much of the existing literature
on the subject, which can claime few booklength
studies....Croissant's book is an excellent survey which will give
readers unfamiliar with the Karabakh dispute a working knowledge of
the major issues and players.?-Survival
?The book is written in a style pleasing to both historiographers
and international relations area specialists alike. In a topic area
often fraught with information distorted by the political
sympathies of journalists and academics, Croissant is able to
carefully extract the facts necessary to produce a detailed and
theoretically sound account of a long term and highly complex
socio-political conflict.?-Terrorism & Politcal Violence, Vol10,
#4, 1998
?An interesting book with good sketches.?-The journal of the United
Service Institution of India
?An interesting book with good sketches.??The journal of the United
Service Institution of India
"An interesting book with good sketches."-The journal of the United
Service Institution of India
"Croissant's exhaustively footnoted study provides a real
perspective to the conflict in the Caucasus."-Defense & Foreign
Affairs Strategic Policy
"The book is written in a style pleasing to both historiographers
and international relations area specialists alike. In a topic area
often fraught with information distorted by the political
sympathies of journalists and academics, Croissant is able to
carefully extract the facts necessary to produce a detailed and
theoretically sound account of a long term and highly complex
socio-political conflict."-Terrorism & Politcal Violence, Vol10,
#4, 1998
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