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Hakobyan, Arsen · Mollica, Marcello, 2025
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2025, ISBN 978-3-031-89206-6 (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology)
Hakobyan and Mollica present an ethnography of the 2020 war in Artsakh, examining how the conflict reshaped attitudes toward urban space and transnational networks among those who lived through it. The book centers on two cities: Stepanakert, analyzed as the political-institutional capital, and Shushi, treated as the cultural and religious capital, tracing the spatial meanings and symbolic value of urban heritage in each. Chapters follow Artsakh from its origins through its status as an autonomous region under Soviet Azerbaijan, the making of the republic, and the war itself. A chapter on transnationalism and war examines violence moving from Syria to the Artsakh theater, and a chapter on space and war documents cultural cleansing. The authors ground the study in the Armenian anthropological tradition of Artsakh research. The result is a scholarly record of how war, displacement, and heritage destruction transformed Artsakh's urban and social fabric.
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Chakhmakhchyan, Svetah · Meyroyan, Edgar, 2025
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 102–128 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0065
Targets a gap in genocide law: the under-use of Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention: 'deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction', against strategies of deprivation that kill a group slowly. Blockades, sieges, and enforced isolation produce attrition that escapes timely legal recognition because the harm unfolds gradually and specific intent is harder to prove, so such acts get downgraded to humanitarian crises or war crimes. The authors clarify the doctrinal scope of Article II(c), synthesize the jurisprudence on actus reus and genocidal intent without a body-count threshold, and turn it into an early-warning and charging framework with objective triggers such as sustained supply shortfalls, health-system collapse, and repeated obstruction of humanitarian access. A proof-of-concept applies the framework to the blockade of the Berdzor Corridor.
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Khachatryan, Armine, 2025
Պատմություն և մշակույթ / History and Culture, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 132–150 (Yerevan State University); DOI 10.46991/hc.2025.22.1.132
Khachatryan reconstructs the two years between the July 1921 decision placing Artsakh under Soviet Azerbaijan and the July 1923 decision granting autonomy. Her premise is that the historical-political literature has never adequately studied the situation produced by the 1921 decision, and that treatments of it are frequently one-sided. She argues that the actual consequences of these decisions require fresh clarification, and that the reaction of the population directly affected, the Armenians of Artsakh, has been given almost no attention. Armenian and Azerbaijani historiographies hold sharply opposed positions and leave real gaps; her aim is to establish the sequence of events and ask how far the settlement reflected the free will of the national majority.
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Minasyan, Nelli, 2024
Հայագիտության հարցեր / Armenological Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2(28), pp. 45–66 (YSU Institute for Armenian Studies); DOI 10.46991/ai.2024.2.28.003
Minasyan analyses how the Artsakh conflict has been discussed at the summits of Turkic-speaking states and inside the Turkic Council and its successor, the Organization of Turkic States, and what positions the Turkic-speaking republics have actually taken. She treats the OTS as the institutional vehicle of Turkic integration and argues that as that integration deepens, pressure on Armenia and Artsakh grows. For the earlier decades she finds that Türkiye and Azerbaijan tried to give the conflict a pan-Turkic character and assemble a united anti-Armenian front, but the Central Asian republics largely held to neutrality. After the 44-day war Türkiye accelerated Turkic integration across political, economic, educational, cultural, security and information domains.
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Yeghiazaryan, Arman, 2024
Հայագիտության հարցեր / Armenological Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2(28), pp. 83–99 (YSU Institute for Armenian Studies); DOI 10.46991/ai.2024.2.28.005
Since 1980 a series of conferences has brought together representatives of Armenia and the diaspora to discuss cooperation, set priorities, and clarify future tasks. The necessity of such assemblies was debated both in the Soviet period and after the restoration of independence, and the search for the most effective format is still unresolved. Depending on the political approach of the government of the day and the problems it needed to solve, these gatherings took different shapes: representative meetings, conferences, summits. The article examines the agendas and convening formats of the Armenia–Diaspora conferences against the historical and political reality of each moment.
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Elamiryan, Ruben, 2024
Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University, Vol. 3, No. 1(7), pp. 10–23 (Yerevan State University); DOI 10.46991/JOPS/2024.3.7.010
Argues that the Third Artsakh war transformed the security environment of the South Caucasus and exposed the parameters of hybrid warfare as a new conflict format. The paper analyzes the strategies, tactics, and instruments Azerbaijan deployed against Artsakh, holding that hybrid operations were not new but were sharply intensified after the 44-day war. It identifies the components of the campaign: information-psychological influence operations, economic and energy pressure, ecological claims, the blockade, international campaigning, efforts to split Armenian political power in Armenia and the diaspora, and sabotage against critical infrastructure. The author frames the outcome as a full-scale hybrid operation aimed at producing an Artsakh without Armenians.
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Gzoyan, Edita · Chakhmakhchyan, Svetah · Meyroyan, Edgar, 2023
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 56–85 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0045
After ten months of blockade-induced starvation and medical emergency, Artsakh was attacked by Azerbaijan on 19 September 2023 and its de facto state forced to capitulate. In the days that followed nearly 120,000 Armenians were forcibly displaced from their indigenous lands. International actors quickly reached for the label 'ethnic cleansing,' but no settled legal definition of that term exists, which creates problems of both characterization and responsibility. The article traces the historical and legal development of the concept and tests its application to the forced displacement of Armenians from Artsakh, setting it against the longer record of institutionalized anti-Armenian persecution and violence.
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von Joeden-Forgey, Elisa, 2023
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (AGMI, Yerevan)
By the executive director of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention: chronicles how Azerbaijan's September 2023 attack on Artsakh displaced virtually the entire indigenous Armenian population despite over a year of explicit warnings from genocide scholars. Analyzes why prevention failed, diplomatic silences shaped by geopolitical interests provided cover for the crime, and argues the Artsakh genocide inaugurates a 'new New Imperialism.'
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Martirosyan, Hayastan A., 2022
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0035
Documents the methods by which Azerbaijani officials have pursued the forced appropriation of Armenian cultural monuments in Artsakh since the 2020 war. The article traces the 'Albanisation' thesis in Azerbaijani SSR historiography from the 1950s onward, showing how it was constructed to make all peoples of the South Caucasus appear equally indigenous. Dadivank, in the Karvachar area, serves as the case study: after passing under Azerbaijani control in November 2020 it was recast internationally as Caucasian Albanian heritage. The author sets out the 'scientific bases' advanced by Soviet and post-Soviet historians and the concrete channels through which the rebranding is promoted to international audiences.
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Suvaryan, Yuri, 2022
Fundamental Armenology, Issue 2 (16) (National Academy of Sciences of RA, Yerevan)
Surveys the millennia-long history of Armenian statehood in Artsakh and the century-long Karabakh movement, arguing Azerbaijan's claim lacks legal, historical-geographical, and ethno-cultural basis. Grounds the legal argument in the 1990 USSR law on secession, under which Nagorno-Karabakh lawfully separated from the Azerbaijani SSR. Represents the scholarly position of Armenia's National Academy of Sciences.
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Hovhannisyan, Gayane S., 2022
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2022), special issue on Artsakh (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0034
This article analyzes the February 1988 massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, focusing on how the violence was characterized and defined by different actors at the time and since. Hovhannisyan works from specialist literature, archival materials, witness statements, and the contemporary periodical press, applying comparative analysis across these source bases. She finds that Armenian assessments linked the massacres to the historical experience of genocide, while the Soviet leadership deliberately framed the events as mass unrest and hooliganism. Azerbaijani narratives, she shows, relied on euphemistic language that minimized the organized character of the violence, and international observers foregrounded an ethnic-conflict frame. The article argues that these competing definitions carried real legal and political consequences for how the pogroms were prosecuted and remembered. Published in the IJAGS special issue on Artsakh, it grounds the modern Artsakh struggle in the foundational trauma of 1988.
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Malkhasyan, Mikayel, 2022
Պատմություն և մշակույթ / History and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 83–100 (Yerevan State University Publishing House); DOI 10.46991/hc.2022.17.1.083
Examines specific questions in the historical demography of Artsakh across the 19th and early 20th centuries, chosen precisely because they are actively falsified by Azerbaijani writers. The article studies the displacement of Artsakh's Armenian population during the Russo-Persian wars, the actual scale of Persian-Armenian resettlement into Artsakh after the 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay, the share of the native Armenian population in Shushi, and the relationship between monastic landholding and demography using Dadivank as the example. It finds that migration processes visible from the mid-18th century took new form during the Russo-Persian wars, with Armenians moving from the foothills and plains into the mountainous districts; that the number of Iranian-Armenian resettlers in Artsakh was far smaller than in the Armenian oblast; and that the 1897 imperial census and later statistics confirm an Armenian majority in Shushi.
