Nagorno Karabakh: An Alternative Legal Approach To Its Quest For Legitimacy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As the Soviet Union was crumbling, a number of simmering ethnic and religious geopolitical hotspots began to boil. For some of these oblasts, de facto statehood (but not necessarily international recognition) was the forced endgame. Georgia's former provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and Serbia's Kosovo, are familiar examples of post-Soviet unilateral declarations of independence.Nagorno Karabakh (NK) unilaterally declared its independence in 1991. The NK-Azerbaijan conflict has the potential to destabilize the Southern Caucasus, Iran, and beyond. This conflict resulted in trebling NK's size, well beyond its internal administrative borders within the former Azeri SSR.Given its de facto (at best) statehood posture, NK is yet another modern unilateral secession in need of a viable legal analysis, as opposed to the military and political ripostes that characterize NK-Azeri relations. NK should adopt the Canadian Supreme Court's Quebec Secession approach to legitimacy, rather than clinging to its questionable interpretation of a Soviet statute in its quest for legitimacy and international recognition.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.040 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".