2021/07/14 by Philip Gamaghelyan, Sergey Rumyantsev · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Armenian #Art #Classics #History #Law #Literature #Mythology #Narrative #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics #Sociology #Soviet and Russian History #Spanish Civil War #Turkey's Politics and Society #Victory
paper · doi:10.1080/23761199.2021.1932068
openalex publication_date 2021/07/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
On September 27, 2020, the three-decades-long Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into war. During 44 days of organized violence that claimed thousands of lives, the political leadership of Armenia and Azerbaijan along with public intellectuals, journalists, artists and ordinary citizens, continually and publicly expressed pro-war sentiments and confidence in their victory. This article examines the strategies of Azerbaijani and Armenian political and intellectual elites and the formation of myths and conflict narratives that steadily led the two societies towards the Second Karabakh War. It further examines the post-war discursive developments that are working to set Armenia and Azerbaijan on the path to a new round of destructive confrontation.