Oil, Law, and the Duty to Resolve the Armenian Genocide — A Legislator’s Guide To Justice For Armenia
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Betrayal Unfinished is a sweeping work of history, law, and geopolitical analysis that argues the Armenian Genocide is not merely a closed chapter of the past, but an unresolved international issue whose consequences continue into the present day. While many governments and institutions now formally recognize the genocide of Armenians committed between 1915 and 1923, this book asks the question few are willing to confront: What legal, political, and moral obligations follow recognition?
Written by Ara Khachig Manoogian, this volume examines how the destruction and dispossession of the Armenian people reshaped borders, transferred wealth, and altered the balance of power across the Middle East and Caucasus. It explores how lands, industries, churches, homes, and strategic resources once belonging to Armenians were absorbed into successor states and later integrated into global systems of trade, diplomacy, and energy politics.
Through archival evidence, historical case studies, and contemporary legal principles, the book traces the links between genocide and profit. It investigates the role of foreign powers, financiers, oil interests, and postwar diplomacy in allowing the outcomes of atrocity to harden into accepted political reality — from the early twentieth century scramble for oil in Baku and the Armenian Highlands, to Soviet-era border engineering, to the modern conflicts involving Artsakh and regional pipelines.
The work also serves as a practical guide for legislators, policymakers, advocates, and citizens. It explains how international law addresses genocide, occupied territories, pillage of natural resources, sanctions, restitution, and the duty of states not to reward or legitimize the fruits of crimes against humanity.
At once historical indictment and forward-looking policy study, Betrayal Unfinished challenges readers to reconsider the meaning of recognition itself. If genocide has been acknowledged, can the world continue business as usual with those who benefit from its results?
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