The Political Origins of De Facto States: Searching for Explanation Models

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Interview with Laurence Broers

Laurence Broers is the South Caucasus Programme Director at the peacebuilding organization Conciliation Resources. He has more than 20 years’ experience as a scholar of conflicts in the South Caucasus and practitioner of efforts directed at their peaceful resolution. He is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Caucasus Survey, the first scholarly journal dedicated to the Caucasus region, published by Brill. He is the author of Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and co-editor, with Galina Yemelianova, of the Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus (Routledge 2020) and, with Anna Ohanyan, of Armenia’s Velvet Revolution: Authoritarian Decline and Civil Resistance in a Multipolar World (I.B. Tauris, 2020).