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Author: Azer Babayev

Azer Babayev is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at ADA University (Baku) and currently a visiting scholar at PRIF. From 2009 to 2018 he was a postdoctoral researcher and an associate fellow in PRIF's research department “Intrastate Conflict”. His research interests are in the areas of conflict resolution and democracy promotion, with a focus on the post-Soviet space.

Nagorno-Karabakh: Why did the Second Armenia-Azerbaijan War Start?

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The “frozen” Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan existed for 26 years being neither at war nor at peace, with no diplomatic relations. What has changed over the past years so that a new all-out war erupted unexpectedly between the conflict parties in late September: military balance, geopolitical balance – or what else?

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