Democratic Security Institute

A great piece by EDSN Fellow Olesya Vartanyan on "Nagorno-Karabakh and the Collapse of Russia’s Peacekeeping Mission: What Weak Mandates and Absent Guarantees Can Teach Us"

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/07/30/nagorno-karabakh-and-the-collapse-of-russias-peacekeeping-mission-what-weak-mandates-and-absent-guarantees-can-teach-us/

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The paper is prepared within the Fellowship of Eurasian Democratic Security Network implemented by the Democratic Security Institute with the support of National Endowment for Democracy.

Nagorno-Karabakh and the Collapse of Russia’s Peacekeeping Mission: What Weak Mandates and Absent Guarantees Can Teach Us - Conflict and Civicness Research Blog The recent failure of Russia’s peacekeeping mission in the South Caucasus underscores the necessity of a clear and robust mandate backed by coalition guarantees and aligned with international principles. Any agreements lacking firm guarantees risk the fate that befell the small Armenian-populated ...