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.

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.

• 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?.