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Makale Özeti:
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Contemporary state-building process is inexorably linked to conflicts in most of the
countries, which experience serious hardships in ensuring stability and smooth
functioning of state authorities. Today’s reality is that conflicts pose real threats to
the modern state-building process. Regardless of the nature of conflict, be it
territorial, ethnic or religious, countries suffering from this problem encounter
instability and a fragile security situation that pose a threat to smooth state-building
initiatives. Although a bulk number of academic sources deal with conflict and
state-building issues, we see that some states have not received proper attention in
academic research. Azerbaijan is one of those countries. It is an undeniable fact
that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict had heavily influenced the political, social,
economic life of Azerbaijan. Taking into account this fact, this article will focus on
discussing the impacts of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem on the state-building
process in Azerbaijan. The article starts with a brief overview of the conflict, its
roots, and the current stance of the problem. Then it tries to find the mutual links
between the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and state-building processes in
Azerbaijan. The article identifies that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the major
source of threat to security and stability in Azerbaijan. In addition, it is concluded
that state-building efforts in Azerbaijan have been considerably influenced by the
violation of territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country.
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