This article, which was published on the website of the Baku Press Club, sets out the recent trends in military spending priorities in Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2020. At the end of a bloody three-year period it seemed as though the two adversaries would slow the tempo of militarisation and...
According to a number of experts, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has become more complicated also because the balance between the two countries has been broken over these years. While Azerbaijan has made impressive economic progress, Armenia has seen better and faster development of civil society institutions. This double...
Border issues between Armenia and Azerbaijan have always maintained their relevance, existing long before the emergence of the two contemporary states. The border between the first independent republics in 1918-1920 remained fairly conventional up until their Sovietization. And even after this, border issues between the “brotherly” Soviet republics remained subjects...
In Yerevan there’s a barrel that’s known as the Peace Barrel. In 2010 the Caucasus regional freedom of information network held a meeting in Yerevan. After the meeting, which was organised by the George Washington University (USA) National Security Archive, the local partners took us on a tour of the...
Experts and political analysts have played and continue to play an important role in facilitating understanding of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Although the media and other public platforms are full of reports and opinions which distort the facts, political analysis nevertheless has an influence, directly or indirectly shaping public opinion and...
“The conflict itself is over and now the bargaining is underway”. Pressklub.az interviewed manager of the joint peacebuilding project Crossroads, Arin Melikyan (Yerevan) — How would you assess the current state of the peace process between Baku and Yerevan? Can it be described as satisfactory? — There’s no proper peace...
WHEN WAR WAS GIVEN A CHANCE How the military crisis in Karabakh was perceived outside the region As part of their joint ‘Line of Contact’ initiative, the Baku and Yerevan Press Clubs organised a discussion to explore how the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict has been perceived abroad. The conversation looked at views...
Conflict expert Arsen Kharatyan from Armenia and independent researcher Shujaat Ahmadzada from Azerbaijan spoke about the international perceptions of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
The peoples of Armenia and Azerbaijan entered modernity through bloody conflicts, which with certain pauses continue to this day. The political dimension of the conflict is ‘accompanied’ by the cultural one: music, cuisine, carpet weaving… People who have been living in the same geographical and cultural space for hundreds of...
