| ID | 181520 |
| Title Proper | Requiem for the Unipolar Moment in Nagorny Karabakh |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Broers, Laurence |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The Minsk Group, led by the United States, France, and Russia, has brokered the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict since the mid-1990s after Armenia-backed secessionists in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic won the first Karabakh war of 1992–94. That mediation embodied the ideals of the mid-1990s unipolar moment, which assumed that liberalized markets and democratic transitions would converge internally to resolve legacy conflicts in postsocialist states while bringing them into convergence externally with Euro-Atlantic nations. Those assumptions withered away over the next quarter-century. Neither Azerbaijan nor Armenia transitioned to liberal democracy. Backed by an increasingly assertive Turkey, Azerbaijan prevailed in a bloody war in 2020. This time, the regional authoritarian powers, Russia and Turkey, are overseeing what could be a test case for a new form of “illiberal peace.” |
| `In' analytical Note | Current History Vol. 120, No.828; Oct 2021: p.255–261 |
| Journal Source | Current History Vol: 120 No 828 |
| Key Words | Authoritarianism ; Turkey ; Russia ; Azerbaijan ; Armenia ; Multipolar ; Nagorny Karabakh |