Nagorno-Karabakh: Why Are Big Powers So Interested In A Small Local Conflict? – OpEd

No one could call Nagorno-Karabakh the center of the civilized world.  It is a small chunk of land in a remote region in the southern Caucuses, flanked on one side by Armenia and on the other by Azerbaijan.  Both, though at one time within the orbit of the Soviet Union, are now small independent states.  Yet a long-simmering...