Abstract
The Tsarist Russian Empire adopted several policies that it had previously pursued during its conflict with the Persian and Ottoman empires, as the Russians adopted an expansionist policy in its regional surroundings, including the South Caucasus region. Therefore, the Russians began implementing a demographic strategic plan to transfer Christian Russian Armenians to the South Caucasus and expel nationalities of Turkish origin, including the Azerbaijanis. The research revolves around a fundamental issue, which is the core of the conflict, which is the issue of the Nagorno-Karabakh region disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan, in addition to analyzing the political developments and geopolitical transformations in the South Caucasus region and its regional surroundings, and the results of these developments, the most prominent of which was the emergence of several wars between them, most notably the 1992 war and the 2020 war, which changed many concepts about the nature of modern wars and turned the balance of power in favor of Azerbaijan, which subsequently regained all the territories occupied by Armenia during the war of the nineties of the twentieth century.
Keywords
Conflict, Geopolitics, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Soviet Union, Regional And International Positions
Recommended Citation
HADHOUD, HUSSEIN ALI
(2025)
"The Azerbaijani-Armenian Conflict and Regional and International Positions Towards it: A Geopolitical Analysis,"
Uruk for Humanities: Vol. 18:
Iss.
2, Article 14.
Available at:
https://muthuruk.mu.edu.iq/journal/vol18/iss2/14
