List of Maps List of Contributors Vicken Cheterian, Karabakh and a New Age of Wars, an Introduction Chapter 1: Vicken Cheterian, Armenia's Geopolitical Dilemma Chapter 2: Kevork Oskanian, The Lost Decades: Negotiating Nagorno-Karabakh between Assumption, Power, and Interest Chapter 3: Sevinj Samadzade, Between the State and Civil Society: A road to the Second Karabakh War in Azerbaijan Chapter 4: Zhirayr Amirkhanyan, Failure of Western-style Defense Reform in Armenia in the Interwar Period Chapter 5: Simon Maghakyan Monumental Lessons from Nakhichevan for the Future of Nagorno-Karabakh's Past Chapter 6: Naira Sahakyan, Armenian Official Discourses on Karabakh Conflict Chapter 7: Arif Yunusov, Azerbaijani Clans and Power Concentration under Ilham Aliyev Chapter 8: Joel Veldkamp, A Curious Lack of Solidarity: The 2020 Karabakh War and Christian Civil Society in the United States Chapter 9: Asbed Kotchikian, Unintended Consequences of Armenia's Policy Making Rationale Before and During the 2020 War Chapter 10: Tigran Yegavian, Does Armenia have a diaspora strategy? Chapter 11: Sheila Paylan, Taking a Human Rights-Based Approach After the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War Chapter 12: Cengiz Çandar, A Revisionist Turkey in the South Caucasus: Why and How? Chapter 13: Laurence Broers, After Minsk: Armenian-Azerbaijani Diplomacy following the Second Karabakh War Chapter 14: Narek Sukyasyan, Russia and Karabakh: The Unreliable Ally? Chapter 15: Hovsep Babayan, Russian Peacekeeping Mission in Nagorno-Karabakh Chapter 16: Leonid Nersisyan and Cerwyn Moore, Military performance and failures in the Second Karabakh and the Russo-Ukrainian wars.