The Future of the Role of Russia and Turkey in Karabakh Conflict from the Perspective of Decision Theory

Since the nature of the international system requires, each state in the international arena tries to use the opportunities and benefits as much as possible. Collapse of the USSR caused that these opportunities and challenges occur for regional and trans-regional countries. Ethnic and racial conflicts are among these challenges and issues which the newly-independent states have been inherited. One of the ethnic and territorial conflicts was the struggle between Armenians and Azeris on the region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan which had a long root and caused war and conflict and killing between Armenians and Azeris. This conflict began from 1988 and by establishing ceasefire between Armenian and Azeris, conflicts ended and the state of "neither war nor peace" was established. Because Russia is considered the most important regional player in the Nagorno–Karabakh conflict, in this conflict, it tries to increase its influence in the region. In addition, Turkey's reaction is against Armenia because of its union to Azerbaijan. Regarding its international status, Turkey tries to close itself to Azerbaijan as much as possible. Prolonging crisis Intervention for the competitiveness and regional and trans- regional powers for crisis management towards achieving more benefits are among the factors of entering Russia and Turkey to the South Caucasus and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for playing more roles in the crisis.