1st Edition
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations War for Sovereignty
1. Irresolvable by Design: The Geopolitics of Unpeace and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conundrum 2. Stages of Negotiations and Collapse of Diplomacy 3. Power Asymmetry and the Road to War 4. The 2020 War: Military Asymmetry and Strategic Breakdown 5. After the War: Fracture, Ethnic Cleansing, and the End of Russian Hegemony 6. Unpeace by Design: Hybrid Warfare and Baku’s Ontological Aversion to Comprehensive Peace 7. Justice, Self-Determination, and Failure of International Law: The Destruction of an Ethnic Statelet 8. Power Transition, Normalization and Negative Peace
Biography
Dr. Nerses Kopalyan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of numerous scholarly books, numerous book chapters, academic journal articles, and mainstream publications. His research and publications concentrate on geopolitical and great power relations within Eurasia, with specific emphasis on small-state security and democratic resilience. He has conducted extensive field work in Armenia on the country’s foreign and security architecture and its democratization process.
Dr. Irina Ghaplanyan is a political scientist specializing in political transformations, governance, and sustainability in post-Soviet contexts. She served as Deputy Minister of Environment of Armenia and has worked extensively with international organizations, academic institutions, and think tanks. She is the author of scholarly books, book chapters, academic journal articles, and policy publications, and regularly serves as an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Armenia.
