Ervand Abrahamian, who is professor of history at the City University of New York, talks about Iran’s foreign policy and its relations with neighboring Armenia, the treatment of its various minorities, its relations with the United States, the upcoming presidential elections, and the impact of both bad management and international sanctions on the deteriorating economy.
Iran: Elections at the Neighbors
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The UK Leaks And Ethnic Cleansing
This week’s episode of Insights will analyze the public statement and press conference by former Artsakh Ombudsman Artak Beglaryan on the current situation, as well as recently leaked documents from the UK government confirming widespread ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijani forces in Artsakh.
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Mustafa Aydin: Three scenarios for geopolitical developments in the South
Mustafa Aydin, professor of international relations and the coordinator at the Global Academy (Istanbul), delivered a lecture on “The South Caucasus After the Wars: Changing Geopolitics, Shifting Alliances, Varying Security” at a conference organized by the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan on March 20. The conference was titled “The South Caucasus: Trends and prospects in the context of the war in Ukraine.”
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How would opening the Turkish border impact the Armenian economy?
Armenia’s border with Turkey has been closed for more than three decades. So what would happen to the country’s economy if that border was opened? CivilNet’s Mark Dovich sits down with economists Hrant Mikaelian, from the Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute and Omar Kadkoy, from the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation, to discuss.
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Laurence Broers: Sustainable peace is ‘beyond the high table and
Laurence Broers, associate fellow at Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme, sits down with CivilNet’s Karen Harutyunyan to speak about the developments in the region since the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. Laurence discusses regional geopolitics, Western mediation efforts, the bilateral negotiation track, and Russia’s role. Even weakened, Russia will remain a tremendously powerful player in the South Caucasus, Laurence says. Earlier last week, Laurence delivered a speech at a conference in Yerevan titled “The South Caucasus: Trends and prospects in the context of the war in Ukraine,” organized by the Caucasus Institute.
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‘Turkey needs Russia’s weakening, but not its complete withdrawal from
Turkey is not impartial in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and supports Azerbaijan based on pragmatic calculations, according to Mustafa Aydin, professor of international relations at Turkey’s Kadir Has University. Sitting down with CivilNet’s Georgi Mirzabekyan, Aydin notes that, for Turkey to be more influential in the region, it needs to have closer ties with Armenia and Georgia. This helps explain the arrangement of powers in the South Caucasus and the convergence and divergence of major powers’ interests here. The Turkish professor was in Yerevan to participate in the “The South Caucasus: Trends and prospects in the context of […]