The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has evoked academic interest and received ample scholarly attention. Still, most of the works regarding this conflict have resulted from one-sidedness or ‘bothsidesism’: the authors have tried to create a false equivalence between an occupier and a side subjected to occupation. In this sense, James J. Coyle’s Russia’s Interventions in Ethnic Conflicts: The Case of Armenia and Azerbaijan fills this obvious gap by being impartial and unbiased. James J. Coyle is a well-known international consultant on security and foreign policy based in California, USA. As a diplomat of 24 years, he has held a variety of positions, including Director of Middle East Studies at the US Army War College. He is the author of Russia’s Border Wars and Frozen Conflicts (2018) and a frequent contributor to The Hill. He has taught at several universities in Southern California. He is also a senior non-resident research fellow at the Atlantic Council. Coyle speaks and reads Turkish, Persian, and French in various degrees of proficiency.