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

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