Military action to recover occupied land : lawful self-defense or prohibited use of force? The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict revisited
Journal: Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)
Year: 2021

In September 2020, heavy fighting erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan long controlled by Armenia. After two months of military confrontations, a tripartite ceasefire was concluded, drastically altering the pre-existing territorial status quo. The "Second Nagorno-Karabakh War" brings to light a fundamental question for international law on the use of force—and one that has received limited attention in legal doctrine. The question is this: