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Karabakh conflict after Kosovo: no way out?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Vicken Cheterian
Vicken Cheterian*
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CIMERA, Geneva, Switzerland
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∗ Email: vicken.cheterian@cimera.org
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Abstract

A series of events in 2008 influenced the Karabakh conflict resolution efforts: the Kosovo declaration of independence, the August war, and Russian recognition of independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Two new diplomatic initiatives to resolve the Karabakh conflict were launched immediately after the August war, one by Russia and the second by Turkey. This article discusses why the two initiatives failed, and the structural problems of Karabakh conflict resolution efforts.

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Caucasusconflictdiplomacynationalism

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 40 , Issue 5 , September 2012 , pp. 703 - 720
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Copyright © 2012 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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