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Ethnic Conflict in Nagornyi Karabakh - A Historical Perspective
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Abstract This article provides a historical perspective on the violent conflict in Nagornyi Karabakh. It focuses on
three distinctive periods that are important for our understanding of the complexity of the current conflict.
The first period considers political and economic relations in Karabakh during th... view more
This article provides a historical perspective on the violent conflict in Nagornyi Karabakh. It focuses on
three distinctive periods that are important for our understanding of the complexity of the current conflict.
The first period considers political and economic relations in Karabakh during the 18th and 19th centuries,
when they were evolving in the context of the social change brought about by Russian colonial rule.
The way these evolving socio-economic relations shaped the identities of the local populations explains why
their relatively peaceful co-existence turned into violent conflict between two communities toward the end
of the 19th century. The period of the Russian Civil War is critically important for understanding the political
organization of the Caucasus under Soviet rule. It was at this time that the foundations of the future
conflict were laid. The Soviet period provides the context for understanding the development of the identities
that became instrumental for the outbreak of conflict in the late 1980s.... view less
Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Free Keywords
Nagornyi Karabakh; Russia; Caucasus; conflict
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 2-7
Journal
Caucasus Analytical Digest (2016) 84
ISSN
1867-9323
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0