Criticism
Due to an article he wrote on the 2008 South Ossetia War, Cornell was criticized by Mark Ames in The Nation. Ames rejected Cornell's New York Times op-ed that placed the blame for the conflict squarely on Russia's shoulders.
American journalist Joshua Kucera, in his article about Cornell's 2010 book Azerbaijan Since Independence, thinks that "Cornell is generally pretty pro-Azerbaijan, and his framing of the situation as something inevitable seems to absolve Azerbaijan of any responsibility for its actions, which I think one could quibble with. But he knows Azerbaijan well, and this is an analysis worth considering."
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