Analyses the 30-year conflict between Soviet successor states Armenia and Azerbaijan for control over the contested territory of Nagorny Karabakh
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict for control of the mountainous territory of Nagorny Karabakh is the longest-running dispute in post-Soviet Eurasia. This book looks beyond tabloid tropes of 'frozen conflict' or 'Russian land-grab', to unpack both unresolved territorial issues left over from the 1990s and the strategic rivalry that has built up around them since. The book demonstrates how more than two decades of dynamic territorial politics, shifting power relations, international diffusion and unsuccessful mediation efforts have contributed to the resilience of this stubbornly unresolved dispute - one of the most intractable of our times.
Laurence Broers is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House. He co-founded and co-edits the journal Caucasus Survey, and has worked in diverse roles at the London-based peacebuilding organisation Conciliation Resources.

Dr Laurence Broers is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus, School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the co-editor of three volumes, most recently, with Galina Yemelianova, of 'The Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus' (forthcoming). He is also the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Caucasus Survey (Taylor & Francis). He has extensive professional experience working in policy analysis and managing Armenian-Azerbaijani peacebuilding initiatives at the civil society level.

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?.