Laurence Broers

Laurence Broers is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and an associate fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House. He has a decade's experience as a practitioner of peacebuilding and human rights advocacy in the South Caucasus, and his research interests include intractable conflicts and peacebuilding in post-Soviet Eurasia, the politics of unrecognised states, and the critical geopolitics of post-Soviet space. He is the...See more

Laurence Broers is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and an associate fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House. He has a decade's experience as a practitioner of peacebuilding and human rights advocacy in the South Caucasus, and his research interests include intractable conflicts and peacebuilding in post-Soviet Eurasia, the politics of unrecognised states, and the critical geopolitics of post-Soviet space. He is the author of Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming) and the co-editor of The Unrecognised Politics of De Facto States in the Post-Soviet Space (Caucasus Institute, 2015) and Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia (Routledge, 2018). He is also co-founder and chief editor of the triannual journal Caucasus Survey . See less