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236:, Ruzan Hakobyan praises the book for being "one of the best and most comprehensive works not only on the Karabagh conflict but also on the region as a whole". However, in the same review she also explains that "an informed eye can detect certain drawbacks". Hakobyan lists two drawbacks, the first one being, according to her, the repeated assertion that the start of the conflict was unexpected for both Armenians and Azeris of Karabakh who lived peacefully and in good relations side-by-side, labeling this as "at the very least optimistic" . Within the context of providing an example, Hakobyan states: "For 70 years Armenians in Karabagh have been systematically subjected to a deliberate policy of discrimination and removal from their homeland and have made repeated attempts to rectify the situation". She then proceeds to list the gradual decrease and increase of the Karabakhi Armenia and Azerbaijani population, respectively, during Soviet rule by using Soviet censuses. Another drawback mentioned by Hakobyan: "one cannot help detecting is that in trying to be impartial the author sometimes slips into flatly equalizing the behaviours of the Armenians and the Azeris during the years of the conflict, thus undermining the historical reality. For instance, he repeatedly claims that the Azeri population that left Armenia in the first year of the conflict has undergone the same inhuman treatment from Armenians as the Armenian population in Sumgait and Baku. But he has no data on which to base this assertion. All he manages to produce are the unfounded assertions of the Azeri population itself, while the atrocities that Azeris had performed towards the Armenian population in Sumgait and Baku are thoroughly documented and widely known". She concludes the review by mentioning that 704: 29: 248:
A number of Armenian academics and analysts were critical of the book, arguing that it presents a false balance between Armenia and Azerbaijan and contains inaccuracies. Professor Alexander Manasyan of
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praised de Waal for providing "a deeper and more compelling account of the conflict than anyone before ... one likely to exercise give-no-quarters partisans on both sides."
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magisterial histories are an essential part of a comprehensible explanation of the intractable problems that beset the region.
799: 171: 738: 274:, as "a banal propaganda but not an objective research on Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict." Vrtanesyan concludes that " 144: 60: 206: 148: 250: 711: 731: 680: 451: 612:"Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: on the Frontlines of the Information War, or the Last "Accord" of the Year" 611: 423: 232: 181: 395: 321: 592: 515: 493: 201: 257:, wrote that de Waal "supports the point of view which is steered by the propaganda machine of 769: 571:
Hakobyan, R. (2004). "Thomas de Waal, (New York and London: New York University Press, 2003),
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since 1988 combined with interviews conducted on the ground in the aftermath of the war.
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is not an unbiased work, neither can its author be considered a neutral observer."
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called it "a lucid, evenhanded analysis of the intricacies of this conflict".
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The book was also criticized by Karen Vrtanesyan, an Armenian expert for the
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The book was particularly praised for its balanced approach given the
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The book won the Outstanding Academic Title 2003 award from
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magazine reviewer Paul Quinn-Judge and Robert Chenciner in
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Index


Thomas de Waal
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
ISBN
0-8147-6032-5
Thomas de Waal
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Soviet
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Choice Reviews
Neal Ascherson
The New York Review of Books
Parameters
Time
International Affairs
ethno-nationalist
African and Asian Studies
Foreign Affairs
Robert Legvold
Nationalities Papers
Yerevan State University
Baku
sic
Ararat Center for Strategic Research
Tatul Hakobyan
Serzh Sargsyan
Khojaly Massacre
"Thomas de Waal"

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