Navigating between international recognition paradigms: prospects and challenges for Nagorno Karabakh

IF 0.5 Q3 AREA STUDIES

Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI:10.1080/23761199.2019.1666231

Vahram Ter‐Matevosyan, Edita Ghazaryan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The Nagorno Karabakh conflict remains a perplexing challenge for the regional security of the South Caucasus. In spite of decades of negotiations under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group, the final resolution of the conflict remains a distant goal. Against this background, since 2012 several US and Australian states as well as the Basque Parliament started to support the right of the people Nagorno Karabakh to self-determination. The resolutions passed by these states were not only unprecedented but were also inconsistent with the foreign policies of their federal governments. The present paper examines the underlying reasons for nine US states (California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Michigan, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Louisiana, and Colorado), and the most populous state of Australia, New South Wales, to have recognized the right of the people of Nagorno Karabakh to self-determination. The paper also looks at the legal and political implications deriving from these resolutions as well as possible prospects for this pattern of recognitions. The paper argues that recognition of de facto states by federal sub-states is a new, albeit isolated, phenomenon. It may potentially enhance visibility of de facto states and help them to gain more support for their pursuit of international recognition.

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在国际承认模式之间导航：纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫的前景和挑战

摘要纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫冲突仍然是南高加索地区安全面临的一个令人困惑的挑战。尽管在欧安组织明斯克小组的主持下进行了几十年的谈判，但最终解决冲突仍然是一个遥远的目标。在这种背景下，自2012年以来，美国和澳大利亚的几个州以及巴斯克议会开始支持纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫人民的自决权。这些州通过的决议不仅是前所未有的，而且与联邦政府的外交政策不一致。本文探讨了美国九个州（加利福尼亚州、罗德岛州、马萨诸塞州、密歇根州、佐治亚州、夏威夷州、缅因州、路易斯安那州和科罗拉多州）和澳大利亚人口最多的新南威尔士州承认纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫人民自决权的根本原因。该文件还探讨了这些决议所产生的法律和政治影响，以及这种承认模式的可能前景。该论文认为，联邦各州承认事实上的州是一种新的现象，尽管是孤立的。它可能会提高事实上的国家的知名度，并帮助它们为寻求国际承认获得更多支持。

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Caucasus Survey Arts and Humanities-History

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1.30

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： Caucasus Survey is a new peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and independent journal, concerned with the study of the Caucasus – the independent republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, de facto entities in the area and the North Caucasian republics and regions of the Russian Federation. Also covered are issues relating to the Republic of Kalmykia, Crimea, the Cossacks, Nogays, and Caucasian diasporas. Caucasus Survey aims to advance an area studies tradition in the humanities and social sciences about and from the Caucasus, connecting this tradition with core disciplinary concerns in the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, cultural and religious studies, economics, political geography and demography, security, war and peace studies, and social psychology. Research enhancing understanding of the region’s conflicts and relations between the Russian Federation and the Caucasus, internationally and domestically with regard to the North Caucasus, features high in our concerns.