Nikol Pashinyan’s Imprint on the 2020 Karabakh War: Did He Instigate the War?
The Karabakh issue has always been an issue shaping Armenian politics. In September 2020, Azerbaijan initiated large-scale hostilities against the unrecognized Nagorno Karabakh Republic,...
European Union Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and the Role for India
The European Council approved conclusions on the European Union (EU) Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific on April 16, 2021. The bloc laid out...
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....
American support for democratization in Southeast Europe: The case of Romania
With the dramatic collapse of communism in Southeast and Eastern Europe, the newly democratically elected governments had to face the harsh reality of being...
Bulgarian Russophobia after the Czech affair: A divide that never waned
The Czech affair
In mid-April, the alleged revelation of unprecedented Russian menace to EU-member Czechia’s internal security hit the headlines across Europe. On an otherwise...
New opportunities in the South Caucasus after the 44-day war and China’s BRI
Authors: Araz Aslanlı and Yunis Sharifli
The entry of the South Caucasus into the modern system of international relations coincided with the transformation of China...
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...
Geopolitics of Europe and the Third Wave
With hospitals filling up across the continent, new variants of the virus proliferating and vaccine shortages biting back, Europe can be seen to be...
How a Democracy Can Be Undermined: Some Lessons
Democracies have an inbuilt flaw when their own processes can be employed to undermine them. It is what has happened in Hungary in the...
Croatia Between Victory And Defeat
The first half of May in Croatia is marked by the anniversaries of two events from the end of the Second World War. With...