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The Rise and Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh

How Ethnic Cleansing Works in the 21st Century

On January 1, 2024, the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ceased to exist. In less than two weeks, an Azerbaijani military offensive forced 100,000 Armenians to flee their ancestral home. The erasure of Armenians from this territory took place in full view of a global public--but Armenians were left on their own.

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Why are constitutions the site of our new civil wars? How did we, who live in democracies, become at once more fanatically attached to the words of the constitution and remorselessly barbaric in compromising its very spirit? Mutant probes the most philosophically knotty, politically charged, and violently contested nucleus of modern democracies: their founding document.

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