More: Caucasus
Iran’s Energy Interests in the Contemporary World
I n today’s shifting world order, energy geopolitics subjects to nation-states’ political and economic interests rather than physical control of energy resources. It...
Iran and Turkey’s energy game in the Gulf and the Caspian basin
T he two major non-Arab countries Iran and Turkey have the significant and most populated geographical locations in the region. From a historical...
Russia self-trapped in Abkhazia and South Ossetia?
Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two Russia-backed breakaway regions of Georgia were recognized by Russia as independent states following the Russia-Georgia war of August,...
Failure of international humanitarian law in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, various ethnic conflicts emerged in the post-Soviet space, such as Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the...
April victory: How important it is for Azerbaijan
The fighting that broke out in the Karabakh conflict zone in early April 2016 was the heaviest since the 1994 ceasefire agreement between the...
Chechnya’s Terrorist Network: The Evolution of Terrorism in Russia’s North Caucasus
Elena Pokalova. CHECHNYA’S TERRORIST NETWORK: The Evolution of Terrorism in Russia’s North Caucasus. 2015 With the rise of terrorism in the Russian Federation, many...
Playing Chess, Not Checkers: Russian Responses to U.S. Hegemony in Kind
Few would argue that Russia’s recent display of military assertiveness, in both its hybrid confrontation in Ukraine and recent intervention in Syria, is antithetical...
The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond
Research on the insurgency and the appearance of local jihadist groups within the North Caucasus after the dissolution of the Soviet Union has been...
Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh: An unlikely and unwanted scenario
The April shootouts in Nagorno-Karabakh that took dozens of lives from each side signaled to the world community that the conflict around the above-mentioned...
Suicidal Nuclear Gambit on Caucasus
Nuclear security is seemingly in the vanguard of global attention, but the large framework of international provisions is increasingly perceived as a toothless tiger....