The Conflict Between Israel and Iran Adopts New Contours

The Conflict Between Israel and Iran Adopts New Contours

Israel is renowned for its active diplomacy, particularly in the Middle East and surrounding areas. Tel Aviv is seeking partners among the pro-Western countries of the Arab East, the de-facto Kurdish autonomy in Iraq, NATO Turkey, and the newly formed Muslim countries of the post-Soviet space, for obvious reasons of localizing external threats arising from…

Another Karabakh Conflict Wouldn’t Scupper the North-South Transport Corridor

Another Karabakh Conflict Wouldn’t Scupper the North-South Transport Corridor

Bloomberg’s and Newsweek’s back-to-back efforts to fearmonger about the North-South Transport Corridor’s viability prove that this megaproject provoked panic within the Golden Billion and that this de facto New Cold War bloc can only resort to information warfare in a desperate attempt to mislead others about it. Newsweek published a piece on Thursday warning that…

South Caucasus: A Battle of Wills and Corridors

South Caucasus: A Battle of Wills and Corridors

On 12 December, under the pretext of environmentalism, dozens of state-backed “eco-activists” from Azerbaijan blocked the only land corridor connecting Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The blockade created a humanitarian crisis for the 120,000 Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh, cutting them off from the outside world. This is not the first time Baku has taken such a provocative…

Mongolia Unrest Looking Eerily Like a Color Revolution

Mongolia Unrest Looking Eerily Like a Color Revolution

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a TV interview in Moscow on Sunday, when asked about where the relationship between Russia and the West is moving, “Well, we are not moving. We have already arrived at a station named ‘Confrontation,’ and we have to be reserved, strong, to have underlying strength because we will have…

The Geopolitical Minefields of a Turkic world

The Geopolitical Minefields of a Turkic world

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world that stretches from Anatolia to Xinjiang in north-western China. “Central Asia now resembles the 1990s when there was a huge competition between global and regional powers for influence over the resource-rich region. The shadow of Russia on the region, coupled…

Pashinyan Has a Point About How Azerbaijan Sells Its Special Operation to Russia & the West

Pashinyan Has a Point About How Azerbaijan Sells Its Special Operation to Russia & the West

Azerbaijan’s dual messaging to Russia and the West might not just be driven by the short-term motivation of deterring criticism or the worst-case scenario of an intervention to stop its special operation, but by longer-term diplomatic goals. Is Baku Playing Both Sides? Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shared some useful insight with parliament in response…