Post-War Spectres: The Ghosts that Haunt Armenia in the Aftermath of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabagh War

As the 2020 war came to a ceasefire agreement on November 10, 2020, through which Armenia made massive territorial concessions, feelings of grief and anger emerged to haunt Armenia through two spectres: soldiers who are missing or who have died in action and the old political economic elite who now threaten to regain power. The Nagorno-Karabagh conflict has had a major impact on the workings of political power in Armenia since the early 1990s, one that now threatens the democratic possibilities that were already fragile prior to the war. In this article, I discuss the affective connections between these two spectres and the political implications of national trauma on Armenia's post-war futures

Local Dimensions of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

This issue of the Caucasus Analytical Digest deals with Local Dimensions of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. Firstly, Leila Alieva explores the securitization/de-securitization processes and attitudes towards the conflict in Azerbaijan in the periods before, during, and after the 2020 conflict in Karabagh; secondly, Tamar Shirinian discusses the affective connections between the two spectres of soldiers who are missing or who have died in action and the old political economic elite who now threaten to regain power, and the political implications of national trauma on Armenia’s post-war futures; thirdly, John O’Loughlin, Gerard Toal, and Kristin Bakke analyse the somewhat contradictory results of a February 2020 survey of inhabitants of Karabakh concerning the questions of territory and peace.Diese Ausgabe des Caucasus Analytical Digest befasst sich mit lokalen Dimensionen des Berg-Karabach-Konflikts. Erstens untersucht Leila Alieva die Ver- und Entsicherheitlichungsprozesse und die Einstellungen zum Konflikt in Aserbaidschan in den Zeiträumen vor, während und nach dem Konflikt in Karabach 2020; zweitens diskutiert Tamar Shirinian die affektiven Verbindungen zwischen den beiden Gespenstern der vermissten oder gefallenen Soldaten und der alten politisch-ökonomischen Elite, die nun droht, die Macht zurückzugewinnen, und die politischen Auswirkungen nationaler Traumata auf die Nachkriegszukunft Armeniens; drittens analysieren John O’Loughlin, Gerard Toal und Kristin Bakke die etwas widersprüchlichen Ergebnisse einer im Februar 2020 durchgeführten Umfrage unter Einwohnern Karabachs zu Fragen von Territorium und Frieden.ISSN:1867-932