TY - JOUR
T1 - Regimes and peace processes
T2 - Democratic (non)development in Armenia and Azerbaijan and its impact on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
AU - Caspersen, Nina
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - The lack of democratisation in Armenia and Azerbaijan is by many observers argued to constitute a key obstacle to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, but other observers contend that the problem is that the respective leaderships are not sufficiently secure to agree to a difficult compromise. This article, however, finds that the relationship between regime types and conflicts is a lot more complex than is often argued in the literature, and that the Karabakh peace process has been undermined by the worst of two worlds: intense elite competition, but without the restraint and widened participation that democratisation could provide.
AB - The lack of democratisation in Armenia and Azerbaijan is by many observers argued to constitute a key obstacle to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, but other observers contend that the problem is that the respective leaderships are not sufficiently secure to agree to a difficult compromise. This article, however, finds that the relationship between regime types and conflicts is a lot more complex than is often argued in the literature, and that the Karabakh peace process has been undermined by the worst of two worlds: intense elite competition, but without the restraint and widened participation that democratisation could provide.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84861461861&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2012.03.005
DO - 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2012.03.005
M3 - Article
SN - 0967-067X
VL - 45
SP - 131
EP - 139
JO - Communist and Post-Communist Studies
JF - Communist and Post-Communist Studies
IS - 1-2
ER -