WHERE THE COLD WAR NEVER ENDED AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEVER ARRIVED KARABAKH DIPLOMACY IN THE 1990s (Volume I)
London : Gomidas Institute, 2026,
x + 256 pp., index
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE ix
INTRODUCTION 1
PART I—UNDERSTANDING THE CONFLICT, THE PROBLEM, & THE SOLUTIONS: From Political Conflict to War
1. Anatomy of Escalation 9
2. Mediations: Everyone Wanted to Solve the Problem 29
3. Villa Madama and the New World Order: The Harmonious
Paralysis of the Minsk Group 47
PART II—HOW DIPLOMACY IS MADE AND HOW DIPLOMATS WORK
4. The 1994 Cease-fire: Whose Cease-fire? 79
5. Bypassing the Mediators or Trying to Do So 99
6. Direct Negotiations 119
7. The 1996 Lisbon Summit: A Diplomatic Disaster that
Begat Realism 139
8. The Meeting by the Pool: A Deceptive Bright Light 151
9. The Rise and Fall of the September 1997 CSCE Proposal 165
PART III—THREE BIG NEIGHBORS
10. Russia: What Changed and What Stayed the Same 181
11. Iran: A Neighbor Comfortable with Dual Paths 197
12. Turkey: Attempting to Untie Historical and Security Knots 213
POSTSCRIPT 247
LIST OF STATESMEN AND DIPLOMATS INTERVIEWED FOR THIS PROJECT 249
INDEX 251