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Why Peace Failed: Hrair Balian’s Anatomy of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict - CIVILNET By Karen Harutyunyan Palgrave Macmillan has published Hrair Balian’s substantial volume Anatomy of Peacemaking: Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Missed Opportunities. Newmag is expected to release the Ar...

www.civilnet.am/en/news/1008... This is an encyclopedic new book that follows the labyrinthine trail of Armenian-Azerbaijani diplomacy on the Karabakh conflict since its inception to the end of 2025, by Hrair Balian. An important new resource for students and scholars of Arm-Az relations.

🚀 We're hiring postdocs/assistant professors for my @erc.europa.eu project, TECHORDER, exploring how companies and states struggle over tech and global order.

The project is based at the Dep of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

Deadline: 20 April

Apply: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Our book "The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age" is soon out with CUP!

We give an alternative account of how tech and social media transform power and take the reader on an ethnographic journey to the backstage of multilateralism, from Brexit to Russia's war on Ukraine

Europeans struggling to cope with the U.S. military's inflammatory interventions in Iran may realize the practical impact of this conflict could be more severe than it's political effect:

It could starve Ukraine of American-made weapons.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/dona...

arisc.org?p=12722 [call for papers] 'Celebrating 20 Years of ARISC: Approaches & Directions in the Study Of the South Caucasus', **virtual** conference 17-19 September 2026, deadline 31 March; broad thematic parameters, details in link.

Operation Epstein Fury.

An Interview with Azerbaijani Author Akram Aylisli - February 5, 2025 in Baku, Azerbaijan YouTube video by Lit-Up Live

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPXI... Full recording of an interview with the renowned Azerbaijani author Akram Aylisli by @tomdewaal.bsky.social and his literary translator Katherine E. Young. Aylisli shares his humanistic and anti-nationalist views, and other memories of a remarkable life.

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Old habits die hard: The Strategic Ambiguity of Armenian-Azerbaijani Peace "Gradualism may lead to a ‘thin’ peace manifested in state-mediated exchanges, trade and functional interactions, yet which is not supported and backed up by a ‘thicker’ peace of networked ties across...

www.agos.com.tr/tr/haber/old... My latest on the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process for @agosgazetesi.bsky.social

This should be obvious to everyone: if Europe backs down and lets the US take Greenland, the transatlantic relationship would no longer be an alliance. Europeans would become dominated American satellites without sovereignty just like EEuropeans were Soviet satellites in the Warsaw Pact years.

Bahruz Samadov threatens suicide after being placed in solitary confinement Samadov was recently temporarily transferred to a new prison and placed in poor conditions.

Imprisoned Azerbijani academic Bahruz Samadov has been transferred from Umbaki prison to the N11 facility and placed in solitary confinement. His grandmother says these new conditions have led him to again consider committing suicide.

🔗: oc-media.org/bahruz-samad...

Neue Ausgabe des Russian Analytical Digest:

Russia-Azerbaijan Relations: Diese Ausgabe widmet sich den angespannten Beziehungen zwischen Aserbaidschan und Russland nach dem Bruch im Jahr 2025.

css.ethz.ch/publikatione...

Ulviyya Ali Official website of the independent journalist, human rights defender, and political prisoner Ulviyya Ali.

Dear friends, I have launched a website for @ulviyyaali.bsky.social where you will be able to read her letters from prison and relevant news about her case: ulviyyaali.com

Von der Leyen will face endless challenges to her position As the European Commission president braces for another no-confidence vote debate on Monday, she knows the tests will keep coming.

Ursula von der Leyen can’t get too comfortable.

When she appears today before the European Parliament to defend her reputation (again), it’s known that even if her centrist opponents are keeping her in post, there’s always a next time.

1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.

EWIS 2026 local hosts. 1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. Serhun Al. Izmir University of Economics. Local Organizer. Umut Can Adisönmez. Izmir University of Economics. Programme Co-Chair.

📣 The call for workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 in Izmir is now open!

🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025

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Engaging With Temporal Others: Memory, Trauma and (In)security Across Time - Phuong Anh Nguyen, 2025 This paper examines how traumatic memory traverses temporal boundaries and shapes ontological (in)security across the past, present and future. Drawing on illus...

My new article is out now in @millennjournal.bsky.social !
Not the first paper I wrote during the PhD—but the first one to make it into the world 🌍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Opinion | Can Azerbaijan really seek peace while it continues to repress its own people? For true peace to happen, Azerbaijan must go beyond external agreements and look within to create change.

📌 Can Azerbaijan really seek peace while it continues to repress its own people?

Opinion by Vafa Naghiyeva

oc-media.org/opinion-can-...

Message from @smdov.bsky.social:

"My trials were conducted very unfairly. No one was allowed into my hearings. They could not prove my guilt in any way.

I ask all honest people to share that I am innocent and that I was imprisoned for wanting peace and justice."

Il silenzio europeo sulla feroce repressione in Azerbaigian Il presidente Aliyev ha imposto un’ulteriore stretta sulle libertà. Giornalisti, attivisti e oppositori vengono arrestati e torturati. A un anno dalla Cop29 l’Ue continua a non battere ciglio, così co...

Italian media published an article about @ulviyyaali.bsky.social with my, @cesarebarberis.bsky.social and Ulviyya's mother's comments included.

altreconomia.it/il-silenzio-...

Azerbaijan’s peace pledge to fight hate speech faces skepticism from activists and legal scholars Despite a peace deal clause banning hate speech, critics say entrenched anti-Armenian propaganda could hinder real change.

While the peace pledge between Azerbaijan and Armenia exists on paper, Azerbaijani activists and scholars argue that putting it into practice and undoing decades of institutionalised anti-Armenian sentiment is something different altogether.

oc-media.org/azerbaijans-...

Opinion | My friend Bahruz is in prison for advocating peace — now that’s state policy Azerbaijan should align its actions to its commitment to peace — free Bahruz Samadov now.

🅾️ Opinion: Azerbaijan should align its actions to its commitment to peace — free Bahruz Samadov now.

oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...

oc-media.org/opinion-my-f... Gulnara Mehdiyeva hits the nail on the head: "If Armenia & Azerbaijan have initialled a text that condemns intolerance & racial hatred, then jailing a researcher whose work has been about refusing hatred is an error that must be corrected." Bahruz Samadov must be freed.

🅾️ OPINION: One year after OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov was arrested, Azerbaijani activist Gulnara Mehdiyeva argues that his release is necessary to make the new Azerbaijani state policy of peace believable.

➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...

Thrilled that my article on treason and political community is (finally) out with International Political Sociology!

academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

Really fascinating article, especially relevant for contemporary times!

US intervention opens new page in Armenia–Azerbaijan peace talks but challenges remain Regional powers and domestic politics threaten the persuasive optics of the White House summit.

www.chathamhouse.org/2025/08/us-i... My latest, on the Washington peace summit between Armenia and Azerbaijan.