Regions/Caucasus

Caucasus

Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

De Waal on the “Great Catastrophe”

The G-Word: The Armenian Massacre and the Politics  of Genocide

Event: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

- Paper
Multipolarity in Practice: Understanding Russia’s Engagement With Regional Institutions
- Paul Stronski, Richard Sokolsky
- January 08, 2020
Over the past two decades, and especially since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, the Kremlin has intensified its engagement with international institutions.
The Nagorny Karabakh Conflict in Its Fourth Decade
- Thomas de Waal
- December 24, 2019
- CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES
The dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains the most dangerous conflict in the post-Soviet space. Even if political tensions have eased since 2018, the region remains dangerously militarized.
- Op-Ed
Amid Rumors of Aliyev’s Succession, a New Generation Comes of Age in Azerbaijan
- Paul Stronski
- December 10, 2019
- World Politics Review
While Azerbaijan will not become a Western-style liberal democracy anytime soon, recent trends point to a society that is changing—and a government that may now recognize the need to change along with it.
- Strategic Europe
Georgia’s Dangerous Slide Away From Democracy
- Kornely Kakachia, Bidzina Lebanidze
- December 10, 2019
The EU should help Georgia overcome its latest political crisis and in that way invest in the further democratization and stability of the wider region.
- Strategic Europe
Is Change Afoot in Azerbaijan?
- Thomas de Waal
- November 05, 2019
Azerbaijan has long been an island of unchanging continuity, but a generational overhaul is underway. With mounting expectations and a resurgent opposition, 2020 will be a testing year for Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
The New Patchwork Politics of Wider Europe
- Richard Youngs
- October 28, 2019
- CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES
The political dynamics of the wider European space have changed dramatically in recent years. The directions of democratic influence now run multiple ways, and the core assumptions underpinning EU democracy support policies need to be rethought.
- Diwan
The Price of a Homecoming?
- Armenak Tokmajyan
- October 28, 2019
- - عربي
Syria’s Armenians risk losing their identity and language as they move to the Republic of Armenia.
After Protest: Pathways Beyond Mass Mobilization
- Richard Youngs
- October 24, 2019
Mass protests garner significant attention, but what happens next is just as vital for achieving real and lasting change.
Regional Conflicts
- Samuel Charap, Vasyl Filipchuk, Ulrich Kühn, Andrei Popov, Nikolai Silaev, Olesya Vartanyan
- October 09, 2019
- RAND
Any future effort to revise the regional order in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia must address the region’s protracted conflicts. It will be impossible to address the other disputes over the security architecture and economic integration without parallel steps on the conflicts.
- Op-Ed
Abkhazia and the Danger of “Ossetianization”
- Thomas de Waal
- July 16, 2019
- Moscow Times
The Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia is under pressure. As Georgian-Russian relations suffer a downturn, Abkhazia risks becoming closed off from the outside world just like South Ossetia.

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Carnegie Experts on
Caucasus

Alexander Baunov
Senior Fellow
Editor in Chief of Carnegie.ru
Moscow Center
Baunov is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center and editor in chief of Carnegie.ru.
James F. Collins
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Russia and Eurasia Program;
Diplomat in Residence
Ambassador Collins was the U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1997 to 2001 and is an expert on the former Soviet Union, its successor states, and the Middle East.
Thomas de Waal
Senior Fellow
Carnegie Europe
De Waal is a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, specializing in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region.
Rose Gottemoeller
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Nuclear Policy Program
Rose Gottemoeller is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. She also serves as the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Stefan Lehne
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe
Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Distinguished Fellow
Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years.
Andrey Movchan
Nonresident Scholar
Economic Policy Program
Moscow Center
Movchan is a nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center.
Philip Remler
Nonresident Scholar
Russia and Eurasia Program
Philip Remler is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Gwendolyn Sasse
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Carnegie Europe
Sasse is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe. Her research focuses on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, EU enlargement, and comparative democratization.
Paul Stronski
Senior Fellow
Russia and Eurasia Program
Paul Stronski is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, where his research focuses on the relationship between Russia and neighboring countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
Dmitri Trenin
Director
Moscow Center
Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.
Andrew S. Weiss
James Family Chair
Vice President for Studies
Weiss is the James Family Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees research in Washington and Moscow on Russia and Eurasia.