Azerbaijan
I am Imprisoned in Azerbaijan. My Crime? Journalism
Americans and the free world must take notice: a threat to press freedom anywhere is a threat to press freedom everywhere. The morning of my arrest felt like any other...
Azerbaijan And U.S. Western Eurasia Strategy
Washington could leverage the Baku-Jerusalem relationship to contain Iranian geopolitical ambitions. Although pushed out of Syria, Iran, as a revisionist state, will continue to challenge U.S. strategy in West Asia....
The Wars That Could Define The Donald Trump Presidency
Almost every president since the end of the Cold War had his foreign policy legacy defined by a war no one could have foreseen. For George H.W. Bush, it was...
COP29 and Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations
Azerbaijan will host the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 29) from November 11 to 22, 2024. The global event is expected to attract up to 100,000 participants,...
VIDEO: The Middle Corridor Linking Asia and Europe
The Middle Corridor, also known as the Trans-Caspian International Transit Route (TITR), is an emerging transcontinental, multi-modal network of transit routes. It offers an alternative to both the Northern Route...
Don’t Disrupt COP29 with Nagorno-Karabakh
The article published in The National Interest presents a deeply one-sided view of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, disregarding key historical, political, and legal factors that shape the narrative....
The World has the Chance to Hold Azerbaijan Accountable
A year ago, Azerbaijani forces launched a brutal military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh that, within days, expelled a population of 120,000 ethnic Armenians who had called the region home for millennia....
Armenia and the U.S. Election
As the U.S. election campaign enters its decisive home stretch, with the candidates now nominated, there will be much focus on how the outcome will impact the wars in Gaza...
Armenia’s Misguided “Pivot to the West”
Something extremely worrisome is happening in and around Armenia. The country is edging closer and closer to becoming the next theater in the destructive, dangerous, and unnecessary confrontation between the...
The Death of Raisi—and Iranian Influence in the Caucasus
On May 19, a forty-year-old Bell 212 helicopter crashed in the foggy mountains of northwest Iran, killing Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Policymakers and pundits have...
Countering Russian Influence in the Caucasus
After U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently met with European Commission President Ursula on der Leyen and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the parties announced support for regional cooperation...
The Two Armenias Debate and the Quest for Peace with Azerbaijan
Earlier this week, the Armenian Apostolic Church came out in overt opposition to the border demarcation process that is understood by both Baku and Yerevan to represent a confidence-building measure...