The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

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• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 164
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Caucasus region, situated on a natural isthmus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, has long been a border zone and a melting pot for a diverse range of cultures and peoples. As the intersection between Europe and Asia, and also - tween Russia and the Ottoman and Persian Empires, it has featured in the strategic plans of numerous great powers over the centuries. Given its abundance of natural resources, the ready-made raw material transport routes to Europe and its enduring position on the edge of Russia, nothing has changed to the present day. The tremendous development opportunities of the Caucasian region are being tarnished by unresolved territorial conflicts that put a continual and regionally balanced growth, sustained democratisation and long-term stability at risk. These conflicts, which all erupted with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, include the separatist movements in Abkhazia, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh and South - setia. The war over South Ossetia, which erupted between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, spelt out the explosive potential still inherent in these conflicts.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter A: The territorial Status of NagornoKarabakh
I. Object of investigation
II. Historical outline
1. Legal significance of history
2. From antiquity to the early modern period: ethnic dislocations and intermixing under Muslim rule
3. Later modern period: waves of Armenian immigration
4. Beginning of the 20th century: between the fronts of the great powers
5. Soviet era: Nagorno-Karabakh as an autonomous region in the Azerbaijan SSR
6. Post-Soviet era: war, ceasefire and an unresolved conflict
III. Analysis under USSR law
1. Validity of the law of the USSR
2. Territorial status of Nagorno-Karabakh
3. Secession of Nagorno-Karabakh under the 1977 Constitution of the USSR?
4. The secession of Nagorno-Karabakh under the 1990 Law on Secession of the USSR?
5. Effects of the revocation of the autonomous status
6. Preliminary conclusion
IV. Analysis under international law
1. Nagorno-Karabakh as an original component of the Republic of Azerbaijan
2. The principle of territorial integrity under international law
3. Exceptions to the principle of territorial integrity: right to self-determination and rights to secession
4. Preliminary conclusion
Chapter B: Involvement of the Republic of Armenia in the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh
I. Object of investigation
II. Violation of the prohibition on the use of force in international law
1. Applicability of the prohibition on the use of force
2. Violation of the prohibition on the use of force
III. Violation of the prohibition on intervention under international law
IV. Preliminary conclusion
Summary
Charter of the United Nations (extracts)
Friendly Relations Declaration (extracts)
UN Security Council Resolution 822 (1993)
UN Security Council Resolution 853 (1993)
UN Security Council Resolution 874 (1993)
UN Security Council Resolution 884 (1993)
UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/48/114 (1993)
UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/285 (2006)
UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/62/243 (2008)
Council of Europe – Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1416 (2005)
Statement of the OSCE Chairman-In-Office
Bibliography
Index