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Post-Communist State Building and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Post-Communist State Building and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict J. C. SHARMAN (Urbana, IL, U.S.A.) POST-COMMUNIST STA TE BUILDING AND THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT This article analyzes the impact of the struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh on Armenian and Azerbaijani state building from the dying days of the So- viet Union. It also examines how popular mobilization from 1988 to 1990 fixed Nagorno-Karabakh, and nationalist concerns in general, at center stage, thereby frustrating the process of demccratic transition. Thus I seek to argue two inter-related points: that nationalist goals tended to displace democratic aspirations and retard and reverse democratisation; and that in the post-Soviet context state building activities have led to war, rather than vice versa as has previously been the case. The specific focus of both these developments has been the contested position of the Nagorno- Karabakh region, lying within the internationally recognized borders of Azer- baijan, but populated by ethnic Armenians who have fought there way to a de facto unification with the Republic of Armenia Post-Communist State Building and the 111agorno-Karabakh Conflict In analyzing the transitions from Communism ir Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, much ink has been spilled concerning the degree to which models developed to explain regime change in Southerrr Europe and Latin http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

Post-Communist State Building and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Sharman, J.C.
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review , Volume 23 (1): 329 – Jan 1, 1996
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1075-1262
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10.1163/187633296X00195
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J. C. SHARMAN (Urbana, IL, U.S.A.) POST-COMMUNIST STA TE BUILDING AND THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT This article analyzes the impact of the struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh on Armenian and Azerbaijani state building from the dying days of the So- viet Union. It also examines how popular mobilization from 1988 to 1990 fixed Nagorno-Karabakh, and nationalist concerns in general, at center stage, thereby frustrating the process of demccratic transition. Thus I seek to argue two inter-related points: that nationalist goals tended to displace democratic aspirations and retard and reverse democratisation; and that in the post-Soviet context state building activities have led to war, rather than vice versa as has previously been the case. The specific focus of both these developments has been the contested position of the Nagorno- Karabakh region, lying within the internationally recognized borders of Azer- baijan, but populated by ethnic Armenians who have fought there way to a de facto unification with the Republic of Armenia Post-Communist State Building and the 111agorno-Karabakh Conflict In analyzing the transitions from Communism ir Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, much ink has been spilled concerning the degree to which models developed to explain regime change in Southerrr Europe and Latin

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Published: Jan 1, 1996

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