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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043
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Topic:South Caucasus security
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Reasons for the Exclusion of Women from the Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process in Armenia

Vassileva, Julia, 2026
Nationalities Papers, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 58–76 (Cambridge University Press); DOI 10.1017/nps.2025.2

Situates the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process against a transformed regional security landscape following the 44-day war and the September 2023 offensive that ended Armenian control of Artsakh, and against Armenia's reorientation away from its traditional alliance with Russia toward closer ties with the West. The article examines the role of women in Armenia in this peace process and their postwar opportunities for agency. It finds women's substantive inclusion remains limited due to elite-dominated hard-power negotiation structures and militarized discourses, societal and economic factors, and self-exclusion. Despite this, it identifies openings for women to assert agency in Armenia's new security environment.

Armenia-Azerbaijan peace processwomen peace and securitypost-2020 politicsArmenian foreign policySouth Caucasus security
English
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Transformation of Modern Wars in the South Caucasus: Azerbaijan's Hybrid War Against Artsakh

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.

hybrid warfareArtsakh2020 warblockadeSouth Caucasus security
English

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