Black Garden
Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9830197 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Legvold (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 166 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war, Thomas De Waal, 2003 |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20033795 |
| OpenAlex | W1529629895 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Black Garden is the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, got sucked into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, bringing to an end the Soviet Union, and plaguing a region of great strategic importance. It cuts between a careful reconstruction of the history of Nagorny Karabakh conflict since 1988 and on-the-spot reporting on its convoluted aftermath. Part contemporary history, part travel book, part political analysis, the book is based on six months traveling through the south Caucasus, more than 120 original interviews in the region, Moscow, and Washington, and unique primary sources, such as Politburo archives. The historical chapters trace: how the conflict lay unresolved in the Soviet era; how Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders exacerbated it; how the Politiburo failed to cope with the crisis; how the war began and ended; and, how the international community failed to sort out the conflict. What emerges is a complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice and conflict
Ancient history · Archaeology · Armenian · Economic history · Independence (probability theory · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Prejudice (legal term · Spanish Civil War · History · Law · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Mountainous Terrain and Civil Wars
An illegal Republic
Regimes and peace processes
The dynamics of autocratic coercion after the Cold War
Affective nationalism
Dynamics of state-building after war
Reinterpreting the enemy
Irenic Scholarship and Public Affairs
Azerbaijan's power plays
Power, knowledge, and pipelines
On Affect, Dancing and National Bodies
Culture and Classroom Communication
Dynamics of de facto statehood
A new concept for the Caucasus
Violence and Restraint in Civil War
Grozny
The Sustainability and Future of Unrecognized Quasi-States
The humanitarian road to Nagorno-Karabakh
War, Status Quo, and Peace in the South Caucasus
Place renaming practices in post-war Karabakh/Artsakh
Civics Education and Democracy Building in Azerbaijan
Armenia and Belarus
The European Union as a normative power
Love Thy Neighbor? Relationships between Religion and Racial Intolerance in Europe
Negotiating Insider and Outsider Identities in the Field
The Diasporic Crane
Science and education as pillars of post-conflict recovery
David and Goliath’ and ‘Georgians in the Kremlin’
The ignoble savage in urban Yerevan
Prayer house or cultural centre? Restoring a mosque in post-socialist Armenia
Contested spaces
Ethnofederalism, separatism, and conflict
The Casualties of War
The Path to Intractability
The Armenian-American Lobby and Its Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy
The Politicization of the Environmental Issue in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh's Nationalist Movement in the South Caucasus 1985–1991
The Religious Dimension of Post-Communist “Ethnic” Conflict
Citizenship, National Identity, and Nation-Building in Azerbaijan
Karabakh conflict after Kosovo
War, language removal and self-identification in the linguistic landscapes of Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorny Karabakh conflict
Azerbaijan after Heydar Aliev
From “frozen conflict” to enduring rivalry
Nationalism and social welfare in the post-Soviet context
Reading the novel Stone Dreams on the 100th anniversary of the “Great Catastrophe”
Time to Agree
The peace-making process in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Dances with oligarchs
The Stone Dreams scandal
Elections and election fraud in Georgia and Armenia
Three Republics of Armenia
Law and State Practice in Armenia
Power, knowledge, and pipelines
Western academic discourse on the post-Soviet de facto state phenomenon
Twenty years after the Nagorny Karabakh ceasefire
Emotions, loss and change
Sincerity, truth and mercy in action
An explorative analysis of the perception of guns and gun laws in Azerbaijan using a mixed-methods approach
Perceptions at War
Islam, nationalism and state in the Muslim Caucasus
A guerra de Nagorno-Karabakh
Land for Peace in Nagorny Karabakh? Political Geographies and Public Attitudes Inside a Contested De Facto State
Special Report
Spinning the past
Implicit measures of attitude change via narrative intervention in the Karabakh conflict
Understanding and Explaining the Kyrgyz–Uzbek Interethnic Conflict in Southern Kyrgyzstan
Between Puppets and Independent Actors
Thawing’ of ‘Frozen Conflicts’ in Post-Soviet Region
Iran and Its Two Neighbours Armenia and Azerbaijan
National and Regional Population Trends in Azerbaijan
Inside the post-Soviet de facto states
Population Trends in a Contested Pseudo-State
Which comes first, the nation or the state? A multiple scale model applied to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Caucasus
Moral power’ as objectification of the ‘civilian’/‘normative’ ‘EUlogy’
Rethinking the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Global actors and public power
Linguistic Green Lines in Lebanon
The Roots of Ethno-Political Mobilization in Nagorno-Karabakh
De facto states and democracy
Incomplete state building – incomplete democracy? How to interpret internal political development in the post-Soviet de facto states. Conclusion
A Broken Region
The Origins and Trajectory of the Caucasian Conflicts
The Political Discourse of the Azerbaijani Elite on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict (1991–2009)
The South Caucasus after Kosovo
The Armenian Earthquake of 1988
Conflict Transformation and Civil Society
Manifestations of Nationalism
Young Soldiers' Tales of War in Nagorno-Karabakh
Living with Non-recognition
The Uses and Abuses of History
Culture and Post-Soviet Transitions
The Last Closed Border of the Cold War
Historical narratives and post-conflict reconciliation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |