Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
It will take Iran a long time to make up the ground it has lost in the South Caucasus since the end of the Soviet Union.
Devaluing its currency, Azerbaijan follows its neighbors into a time of economic struggle.
A worsening pattern of violence on the Karabakh ceasefire line increases the danger of a war by miscalculation in 2015.
On 12 January, Arif Yunus, the distinguished Azerbaijani scholar, will celebrate his 60th birthday in a prison cell.
2014 was a year of crisis. Ebola, ISIS, and Donbas are now part of the global lexicon. Eurasia Outlook experts weigh in on how crises on Russia’s periphery affected the country, and what these developments mean for Moscow in 2015.
2014 has seen violent flare ups in Nagorny Karabakh, as Azerbaijani and Armenian forces have engaged in skirmishes across the ceasefire line. The international negotiations process has come under renewed pressure.
In the new ideological cleavage that has opened up between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Western countries, one idea divides them like no other: the meaning of regime change.
Calling time on the South Stream pipeline project, Putin announced a new Black Sea pipeline to Turkey instead. The new project could be a competitor to Azerbaijan gas ambitions, but, at the same time, it may require more collaboration in the future.
The shooting down of an Armenian helicopter on the ceasefire line of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone is the worst incident of its kind in over 20 years.
The Ukrainian crisis has shown to the South Caucasian states that deciding between European and Eurasian integration comes at a high price, but that indecisiveness is an even worse path.