More: Caucasus
Central Asia: An Unlikely Source of Extremism
The New Year’s attack on the upscale Reina nightclub in central Istanbul that killed 39 and injured some 70 people is still under intense...
Trump, change and the new level of militarization in the South Caucasus
A fter Donald J. Trump has become a president-elect of the United States of America there has been an ongoing debate about...
Time to reset the European Neighborhood Policy: problems and perspectives
T his article investigates the focal prospects and challenges of the European Neighbourhood Policy that the EU is facing many obstacles concerning partner...
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...