Svante E. Cornell: The Armenian-Azerbaijani Crisis

https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-armenian-azerbaijani-crisis/

Svante E. Cornell is Director of the American Foreign Policy  Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, and a co-founder of the  Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. His main  areas of expertise are security issues, state-building, and  transnational crime in Southwest and Central Asia, with a specific focus  on the Caucasus and Turkey. He is the Editor of the Central  Asia-Caucasus Analyst, the Joint Center’s bi-weekly publication, and of  the Joint Center’s Silk Road Papers series of occasional papers.

Dr. Cornell is the author of four books, including Small Nations and  Great Powers, the first comprehensive study of the post-Soviet conflicts  in the Caucasus. His articles have appeared in numerous leading  academic and journals such as World Politics, the Washington Quarterly,  Current History, Journal of Democracy, Europe-Asia Studies, etc. His  commentaries and op-eds appear occasionally in the U.S., European, and  regional press.

Cornell is Associate Professor (Docent) in Government at Uppsala  University and Associate Research Professor at Johns Hopkins  University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Dr.  Cornell holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala  University, a B.Sc. with High Honor in International Relations from the  Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and an honorary  doctoral degree from the Behmenyar Institute of Law and Philosophy of  the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. He is a member of the  Swedish Royal Academy of Military Science.