Does anyone care about Nagorno-Karabakh?
For a couple of days in early October 2023, the world's news media suddenly became interested in Nagorno-Karabakh, a semi-autonomous largely Christian enclave within largely-Muslim Azerbaijan. After months of unrest an Azerbaijani offensive in September 2023, which followed a nine-month long blockade - essentially, a starvation blockade - resulted in Nagorno-Karabakh becoming quickly overrun. Unsurprisingly, Nagorno-Karabakh capitulated within days with the end result a hastily negotiated ceasefire that required the republic to dissolve itself by 1st January 2024. Nagorno-Karabakh entered into ceasefire talks from a position of weakness, having been overwhelmed in the first day of the Azerbaijani offensive. Aside from the presence of the Russian peacekeeping command, there was no international oversight or involvement. The largely Christian ethnic Armenians fled en masse. Over 120,000 people, nearly the entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh, has been displaced. In my view, the del