Special Report: Nagorno Karabakh Elects President and Parliament
Voters head to the polls in Nagorno-Karabakh to elect a new president and parliament. Escalations take…
Read moreVoters head to the polls in Nagorno-Karabakh to elect a new president and parliament. Escalations take…
Read moreBy Ani Paitjan On March 31,Armenia’s National Assembly voted to reject the legislative package on…
Read moreMustafa 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.”
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.
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.
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 […]
Four years after the military clashes in the Tavush-Tovuz region of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, there are renewed concerns in the northeastern part of Armenia regarding potential aggression from Azerbaijan. As efforts to reach a normalization deal continue to stall, Baku has demanded that Yerevan relinquish control of four out of eight villages, which were previously inhabited by Azerbaijanis but are located within the Republic of Armenia. Meanwhile, Armenia’s demands for the return of segments of lands belonging to 31 villages continue to be ignored.