In December, three months after the devastating September 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh displaced more than 100,000 Armenians, Yerevan and Baku engaged in bilateral talks that “reconfirmed their intention to normalize relations and to reach a peace treaty on the basis of respect for the principles of sovereignty and territorial …
Read More »South Caucasus Turns Away From Russia Toward Middle East
Rapid geopolitical change is curtailing Russian power in the South Caucasus, boosting the influence of Middle Eastern countries and bookending the region’s “post-Soviet” history. The South Caucasus is undergoing a geopolitical transformation. The war in Ukraine and the effective resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan mean that …
Read More »Armenia Should Decide If It Is Part If The West Or The Anti-Western Axis Of Evil – OpEd
The brutal terrorist attack on October 7 of last year by Hamas on Israel has shed a spotlight on the Russian-Iranian military alliance. Ten countries are now dragged into the fighting in the Middle East. Over the weekend the killing of three and wounding of 34 US servicemen in Jordan …
Read More »Landmark Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Treaty Inches Closer
Despite their bloody history and repeated recent disappointments, a long-term accommodation between Armenia and Azerbaijan is within reach. Recent hopes that a peace agreement between the South Caucasus nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan could be achieved have come to nothing. In late 2023, some believed such a historic step was …
Read More »Armenia’s Energy Security Faces Frosty Relations With Russia – Analysis
Armenia’s strained relations with Russia, its traditional strategic ally, may have an impact beyond political and security alliance, affecting the country’s energy security as Moscow supplies most of Yerevan’s gas needs. Armenia is officially considered a self-sufficient country in terms of its volume of electricity, generating up to 98 per …
Read More »Breakthrough In Azerbaijani–Armenian Peace Negotiations? – Analysis
In a first-of-a-kind bilateral statement, without any external participation, Azerbaijan and Armenia have arrived at an extremely important humanitarian and diplomatically symbolic agreement. It is the first time Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to coordinate on any international matter. The humanitarian aspect is that the Republic of Azerbaijan—”driven,” according to the …
Read More »The Georgian Intelligence Service’s Role In Contemporary Russia-Georgia Relations
Abstract: The world has never been safe for small and vulnerable countries. Their perilous position has been largely determined by weak economic, political and military capabilities, which deprive them of the ability to ensure their national security effectively. The existing literature concerning national security of small and vulnerable countries reveals …
Read More »Azerbaijan, Armenia Hold Border Meeting Amid Stagnant Peace Talks
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to discuss the delimitation of their mutual borders as part of wider talks on a peace treaty that show little sign of progress. On November 30, the state commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan on border delimitation met for the fifth time at the Ijevan (Armenia) – …
Read More »Armenia Under the Gun
Azerbaijan’s Territorial Ambitions Extend Beyond Nagorno-Karabakh In late September, one of the most shocking human upheavals since the century began took place in the former Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a small, hilly patch of territory nestled within Azerbaijan. After three decades of tensions and conflict, it took just one day …
Read More »Azerbaijan Busted A US Government-Funded Information Warfare Operation
Although Azerbaijan and India have different views on Karabakh and Kashmir, they’ve found themselves under similar pressure from the US, and this is precisely due to them being regional multipolar leaders. “The West’s Pro-Armenian Pivot Is Complete After The US & EU Openly Took Its Side” last month against Azerbaijan …
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