China Seeks to Boost its Role in the Arctic
As of late, China has increased its engagement within the Arctic region. Natural resources, as well as new, trans-oceanic trade routes motivate Beijing to...
Searching for Georgia’s Place in Biden’s Vision for Eastern Europe
As some crucial aspects of the Biden administration’s vision toward Eastern Europe are being rolled out, Georgia’s precarious geopolitical position is important to watch....
A Counter-Enlightenment Creeps Through Eurasia
We live in the age of counter-Enlightenment. What seemed like a collection of dispersed autocratic and simply illiberal states, has now coalesced into a...
Armenia After the Parliamentary Elections
On June 20, snap parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia. The move will ease tensions in the country but will fail to end...
Armenia’s Surefire Election Winner? Russia
The continuing political crisis in Armenia is now entering a new stage after snap elections were announced for June 20. This follows an agreement...
Turkey’s Foreign Policy Balancing Act
It is often claimed that Turkey made a definitive break with the West in 2003 when the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...
Recalibrating U.S. Attention in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus
Any strategy to counter Russia’s malign activities must start from the identification of simple truths.
The first is that short of war, Russia does not...
Crisis in Armenia Provides Fertile Ground for Russian Meddling
The immediate cause came on February 25, when Onik Gasparyan, Chief of General Staff of the Armenian Army, and other senior commanders released a...
As Georgians Fight Each Other, Russia Gleefully Looks On
Earlier today, the leader of Georgia’s major opposition party – United National Movement (UNM) – was detained at his party headquarters by government security...
A Fateful Step Towards Annexation
It’s easy to lose sight of regional developments amid high political drama. The story of Alexei Navalny’s poisoning, flight to Germany, return, and arrest...