What’s at Stake in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Chessboard

What’s at Stake in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Chessboard

Few geopolitical hot spots across the planet may rival the Caucasus: that intractable, tribal Tower of Babel, throughout History a contentious crossroads of empires from the Levant and nomads from the Eurasian steppes. And it gets even messier when one adds the fog of war. To try to shed some light into the current Armenia-Azerbaijan…

Russian Strategic Calculations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis

Russian Strategic Calculations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis

OneWorld is publishing the original English-language version of Andrew Korybko’s analysis on the titular topic that was first released in Russian at the Moscow-Baku information portal. The latest Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis has brought a lot of attention to Russian strategic calculations in the South Caucasus. Being Armenia’s mutual defense ally through the CSTO, observers fear that…

Iranian Geostrategic Calculations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis

Iranian Geostrategic Calculations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis

Iran has an extremely rare opportunity to greatly improve its regional reputation by offering to host peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan to replace the failed OSCE Minsk Process, though it might experience intense Russian resistance if it opts for this course of action unless Tehran can convince Moscow that its proposal stands the credible…

European Union Sanctions Against Belarus Will Backfire and Deepen Minsk’s Ties to Moscow

European Union Sanctions Against Belarus Will Backfire and Deepen Minsk’s Ties to Moscow

On October 1, it was agreed upon at the European Council special meeting that Belarus will be sanctioned. However, the scope of the sanctions and the long path to agree on them, demonstrates that the European Union is in a crisis and cannot project its power as it wishes. German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the…