Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a lunch seminar with international legal scholar Tim Potier. Is the prospect of a peace treaty being signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan any time soon realistic?

During the early autumn of 2022, there was much anticipation that Armenia and Azerbaijan would be able to sign a peace treaty before the end of the year. By December, such hope seemed to have been dashed with the blockading of the Lachin corridor. With the recent resignation of Ruben Vardanyan as State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, one should hope that tensions will gradually ease. However, both sides still appear to lack the self-confidence to put their countries and the South Caucasus generally on a long-term road to peace.

The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Lunch will be served. Click here to register.

Tim Potier has been living in and working on the countries of the former Soviet Union for nearly 30 years. From 2017 until 2022, he was living in Moscow and working in the Department of International Law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University). He left Russia almost one month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. He is a Senior Fellow in the Center for International Law and Governance at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. A former member of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, he was a Visiting Professor at the College during Easter term 2022 and worked at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law as Visiting Fellow. At the beginning of February 2023, he finished writing the book, International Law at a Crossroads. He is currently working on two books, which he expects to have completed by the end of August. One of these will be a second revised edition of his earlier monograph Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Legal Appraisal (2001). The other book is on Roman Succession Law.