Many things have changed since the first Karabakh war (1988–1994), when Armenia emerged victorious. However, the years leading up to the Second Karabakh war in 2020 show that, in the long term, Yerevan lost out on many opportunities owing to the events that unfolded during the first war.
Azerbaijan gaining independence in 1991 spurred on political activism in South Azerbaijan as well. During this period, various legal and illegal parties were established by Iranian Azerbaijanis. The main organization founded at that time was the South Azerbaijan Devotees Organization established in the early 1990s.
Backed by the juggernaut of the Chinese state, the "Belt and Road" project has been a hotspot for international investment for over a decade.
In this post-war period, and in the wake of its gains in the Second Karabakh War, Azerbaijan is in the process of pursuing ambitious infrastructure and connectivity projects spanning the transport, energy, and digital spheres.
Before Protestantism, pious Christians described hell as a place of eternal torment and paradise as a place of permanent pleasure and rest, while Protestantism opposed this concept.
For the last three decades normalising diplomatic relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey was impossible when Armenia occupied twenty prevent of Azerbaijani territory in 1994-2000.
The Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan has sparked concern in Central Asia and Russia that this development will generate refugee flows into both regions and that among those migrants will be members of radical Islamist groups who might mobilize extremist forces within the five countries of Central Asia and the republics of Russia’s North Caucasus, threatening the existing governments.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was established as a multilateral association to ensure security across the vast Eurasian region and promote good-neighborly and friendly relations among member states, encouraging their further effective cooperation in various fields.
The South Caucasus—home to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia—is a geographic region that oftentimes is believed not to have developed regionalism. The reason for such an argument is the lack of political stability caused by security and territorial is- sues. With the ceasefire truce brokered by Russia and the declaration of Azerbaijan’s victory in the Second Karabakh war, new regional perspectives are in sight for the region.
Georgian activists of Azeri origin are collecting signatures for a petition to amend a law governing surnames, revealing the complexities of identity in the region.
The Turkic Council aims to establish a close relationship between press members of Turkic Republics, Azerbaijan's Presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev said, underlining the council's potential to boost cooperation among the Turkic world.
Although Tehran and Moscow share the goal of keeping Western powers out of the Caspian Sea, they are not in a full alliance mode, and each has its own policy line.
Introduction The Second Karabakh War ended the three-decade-old Armenia– Azerbaijan conflict, which has had a great impact on the formation of a new geopolitical and geo-economic situation in the South
NATO and the European Union need to think outside the box with respect to how GUAM’s four members can be anchored within the Euro-Atlantic community of states.
Last month, I became the first Israeli businessman to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Azerbaijan Investment Company, the sovereign investment arm of the Azeri government, on the historic occasion of the opening of the Azerbaijan Trade and Tourism Office in Tel Aviv.
This paper covers the South Caucasus policy of Turkey after the 44-Day War be- tween Azerbaijan and Armenia in 2020. The aim of the research is to investigate the role of Turkey, which supported Azerbaijan politically and morally in the war, in the South Caucasus. This article concludes that, after this war, a new geopolitical situation has emerged in the South Caucasus region. In this new geopolitics, Turkish soldiers have been deployed, alongside those from Russia, in the Joint Monitoring Centre to observe the ceasefire in the Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and Turkey became a kind of guarantor of the liberated Azerbaijani territories through the Shusha Declaration signed between Turkey and Azerbaijan. Additionally, according to the trilateral statement of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia that was signed on 11 January, it was decided to establish a new corridor that is planned to pass through Armenia to connect Turkey with Azerbaijan. Moreover, Turkey–Azerbaijan strategic relations have entered a new phase in terms of economic, military, and defence industry technologies. In short, after the 44-Day War, Turkey gained an advantageous position in the South Caucasus and Central Asia.
If ever there was an oxymoron, it is Russian peacekeepers. As the last three decades in Eurasia demonstrates, Moscow does not resolve conflicts; it manufactures them to its own benefit.
The 44-day war between Armenian forces and Azerbaijan brings about new debates. Azerbaijan liberated its lands that had been under Armenian occupation for about 30 years.
Another Armenian myth is crumbling before our eyes. The most economically backward state in the South Caucasus, which has isolated itself from all major economic projects successfully implemented in the region. Armenia. A country heading towards a financial crisis and living on credit. Again, Armenia. The size of its external debt has already approached 70% of its GDP.
Turkey is bolstering defense cooperation with Azerbaijan as it seeks to double down on the military success of last year’s war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
The US Department of State released a report overviewing the current human rights situation in Armenia for the period from 2019 to 2021. It was compiled from the reports published by a number of international non-governmental organizations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, Freedom House, International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), and contains references to the US Department of State, Human Rights Report 2020, 2020 EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy, World Economic Forum and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
The Kavkaz Uzel news agency has surveyed the opinion of experts in Yerevan and Baku about a possible future role for the OSCE Minsk Group in talks between them.
I also thank the military forces of NATO Allies, in particular Turkey, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and our partner Azerbaijan, for their vital role in securing the airport. And I thank all the Allies who have today pledged to receive Afghans at risk.
Armenia’s recent general election saw Prime Minister Nikolai Pashinyan return to office with a substantially increased majority. Instinctively a moderate and pragmatic voice, Pashinyan has in the past found himself having to make concessions to his own ‘ultras’ whose only vision for their nation is one of isolation and eternal grievance against Turkey.
