RUCARR Seminar with Lamiya Panahova, Doctoral Researcher at Charles University in Prague
Time: November 4, 15.15-17.00 CET
Place: Seminar room, 9th floor (Niagara) or via Zoom: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/61212519285
Abstract:
The 44-day war in 2020 marked a turning point in the long-standing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, fought over the territory that once formed the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast within Soviet Azerbaijan. By retaking the surrounding districts and parts of the region during that war, Azerbaijan gained the upper hand, adopted a more assertive stance in subsequent peace talks, and ultimately used force to bring the entire area under its control in 2023. This talk covers, in comparative perspective, the roles of Russia, the European Union, and the United States in the negotiations from 2020 to 2025. It analyzes the factors behind their successes and failures, drawing on the actorness framework and prior scholarship to measure how these actors’ actorness shifted after 2020 and how those shifts affected their recognition by the parties to the conflict. The presentation will also discuss the recent US-brokered peace deal between the parties in August this year, talking about its future implications.
