Armenia’s June 7 Election: Procedural Legitimacy and Tainted Mandate
Armenia voted on June 7 in a parliamentary election intensely contested by 18 political parties and alliances. The 59 percent voter turnout was a...
Trump’s Corridor in South Caucasus Nine Months On: Vagaries and Vulnerabilities
On 8 August 2025, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a Joint Declaration at the White House establishing the...
More Diplomacy, Not Minefields, Needed to Secure Peace in the South Caucasus
On August 8, 2025, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia signed a joint declaration for peace at the...
The world must compel Azerbaijan to release its Armenian hostages
Even as the world is riveted by a hostage drama in the Middle East, another one simmers in the Caucasus, unheralded but potentially impactful....
Responsibility for the Nagorno-Karabakh Debacle
In September, while world leaders were in New York for the United Nations General Assembly deliberating about international cooperation, rule of law, human rights,...
Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Negotiations: Mediators Have Responsibility to Protect
The United States and European Union are mediating an end to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan festering since the fall of the Soviet...