Ce memoire porte sur les interventions de la Russie dans le conflit du Nagorno-Karabakh entre 1988 et 1996. A partir d'un modele de double structure developpe par Albert Legault, nous regroupons les questions relatives a ce conflit en une "structure conflictuelle" (les protagoni…
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Why is there a variance in the size of investment by American multinational corporations (MNCs) in the oil and gas sectors of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan? All ten of the leading oil MNCs in the world petroleum industry have invested in the region. However, the size of investment b…
The year 2003 marks the eleventh anniversary of the OSCE's Minsk Group's activity towards finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Although people in both Armenia and Azerbaijan vested high hopes in this negotiating body, the results of the decade-lo…
With the end of the Cold War the United States became the sole superpower. When confronted with such a situation a hegemon has historically chosen to transform the system. U.S. administrations have chosen this option by pursuing a policy of “enlargement.” By supporting the devel…
This work explores the relationship between the national past, collective memory, and political practice. Based on twenty-two months of ethnographic fieldwork in Armenia, September 1987 to June 1991, it examines the active reconstruction of the past during a period of rapid poli…
This study analyzes how excessive compliance with local educational authorities affects policies of international schools in the South Caucasus, once a part of the USSR and now three independent republics with common problems (Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan). Considering its h…
Despite numerous post-WWII social science predictions that ethnic nationalist conflicts were destined to whither away, the second half of the twentieth century has seen the persistence of such conflicts. Ethnonationalist conflicts have remained as virulent as ever during the las…
This dissertation examines the national-democratic movements in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan before and after the collapse of the USSR. It looks at the question of why the movements that began from similar points ended up with different outcomes. The selection of cases relies on th…
In a world where nationalist movements are on the rise with the potential to contest state legitimacy, the study of nationalism both as a political phenomenon and as an academic topic becomes more salient. This study attempts to explain the causes of nationalism, as well as the …
Following Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, nationalist movements arose in some—but not all—of the non-Russian republics in the Soviet Union. In the southern tier republics of Transcaucasia and Central Asia there was a regional discrepancy in the presence or absence of nationalist mo…
This dissertation focuses on the effects of democratization on foreign behavior. It discusses why some states have become more belligerent during their transitions to democracy, while other democratizing states have developed peaceful foreign policies. The study analyzes several…
The Karabakh conflict is the longest and arguably the bloodiest conflict within the newly independent states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. There have been six distinct and unsuccessful major mediation efforts between September 1991-June 1996 to assist the conflicting parties…
The mechanics of political leadership and the ways in which it manifests and reproduces itself---from the establishment of constituency allegiance to the production of entire landscapes of authority---have become prominent foci of study among social scientists in recent decades.…
After the demise of the Soviet Union, youth in independent Azerbaijan have entered a period when not only has the system that guided their advancement toward adulthood lost formal structures, but the strong, multiplex social ties that lent social support and security have also l…
This dissertation develops a new approach that enables policy-makers to analyze welfare gains from improvements in the quality of infrastructure services in developing countries where data are limited and supply is subject to interruptions. An application of the proposed model i…
Le constat d'une corrélation entre d'une part les guerres sécessionnistes ayant eu cours au Caucase du Sud durant les années 1990 et, d'autre part, le statut politique que les groupes ethniques impliqués dans ces conflits détenaient à l'époque soviétique constitue le point de dé…
A scarce body of scientific knowledge is available on IPV in the transitional countries of the former Soviet Union/fSU and the magnitude, risk factors, and acute and lifetime health consequences of IPV remain unknown in the fSU region. The fact that the transitional countries of…
Developing a more complete understanding of the Paleocene-Miocene strata of eastern Azerbaijan is crucial for a myriad of reasons, some academic and some applied. These strata contain a record of the evolution of the South Caspian Basin during a critical time in its development,…
While economic explanations for the "resource curse" are well established, the political factors explaining why governments fail to take corrective action remain poorly understood. Research has shown that if governments save oil profits abroad and slowly re-introduce the oil-gen…