More: Caucasus
Armenia-Iran: Good neighbourly relations absolute necessity
Some experts believe that Iran’s cooperation with Armenia could become
costly for the latter owing to the ever increasing hostility demonstrated by US
President Donald Trump...
China Set to Increase its Influence in Georgia
China-Georgia
relations since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 have been positive in
both the economic and overall political sense. However, they are often
overestimated...
China’s changing interests in South Caucasus
On April25-28,“Second Belt and Road Forum
for International Cooperation” took place in the capital city of China. From South Caucasus region only Azerbaijan
leader Aliyev was...
Boosting Spatial, Social and Economic Mobility Crucial for Achieving Shared Prosperity in the South Caucasus
The notable improvements that the people of the South Caucasus have
experienced are reflected in better living standards that allowed poverty to be
reduced by half...
Georgia Stands With Azerbaijan: Strategic Partnership In The South Caucasus
Authors: Aliyar Azimov and Aynur Azimzade*
South Caucasus has always been a focus of
geopolitical competitions for centuries with its geo-strategic location and natural
resources. The transportation...
Why Nikol Pashinyan Returned From Vienna Empty- Handed?
On 29 March
2019, the first official meeting was held between Azerbaijan’s President Ilham
Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Vienna on the settlement
of...
Did Central Asia’s Jihadists Challenge Al Qaeda?
Uzbek and
Uyghur Muhajireen support HTS
First-time al Qaeda-linked Salafi-Jihadi groups from Central Asia, Caucasus and China's Xinjiang fighting against the Bashar al-Assad regime in northern...
Armenia’s Untimely Preconditions on Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
After the Velvet Revolution, international
community expected that new Armenian government would intensify the diplomatic
negotiation process for Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Everybody thought that
Pashinyan-led government would act...
Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia and the Caucasus
The massive Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) plans to build roads, railways,
seaports and other trade infrastructure in dozens of countries in the Eurasian
continent. The BRI...
The Potential of the North-South Trade Corridor
One of the major historical obstacles for
Russian territorial (or simply geopolitical) expansion over the past several
centuries has been the Caucasus Mountains.
Thence comes Russia’s permanent...