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“Pyrrhic Sovereignty” – The Treasure of the Tengiz
History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes - or so goes the adage. This is at play in the Caspian today as...
Russian Nemesis? Cold War Pathologies and Analytical Afflictions
There have been numerous articles on the authoritarian strengthening of power in Russia and Putin’s backsliding from democracy throughout the 2000s. Russian positions and...
Russian Victim? Repositioning Strategies and Regional Dreams of Dominance
As a new wave of non-Western countries strive to elevate their profiles and expand their global influence, Russia is taking steps to help secure...
Food power
Last March, as Russia annexed Crimea, the European Union, Canada and the United States imposed sanctions – travel bans and asset freezes against some...
BRICS: The Strategic Road Map
After three days of high-level summitry deliberations, the BRICS group of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), created by the five world’s...
KHORASAN: Where DAESH, Caspian Energy, and Great Power Politics Meet
The word on the street in Afghanistan is that the United States created DAESH to be a problem for Russia, China, and Iran. While...
The Silk World Order
Get ready for ground shattering geopolitical changes. At the crossroads of Asia and Europe, it has been decided that the Russian city of Ufa...
Walking a Delicate Geostrategic Line: Azerbaijan’s Role to the U.S. and Russia
Although the Cold War is long over there has still been a large degree of geopolitical competition between the West and Russia. This geopolitical...
America vs. Russia: Bringing a Knife to a Foreign Policy Gunfight
In some ways the United States has played a very strange self-injurious game since 1991 when it comes to Russia. On the one hand,...
Sons of Orthodoxy: EU Austerity and a Russian-Greek Orthodox Alliance
The bitter fight that has been raging between the European Union and Greece has now extended for five long months. With the referendum on...