The Outcome Of Armenia’s Latest Round Of Unrest Will Be Pivotal For The Region’s Future By Andrew Korybko If Armenia becomes a joint Azeri-Turkish protectorate like Pashinyan’s opponents fear that he agreed to, then Turkiye could become a force to be… Read More ›
India-Pakistan Conflict Escalates, Entangled In Middle Eastern And Caucasian Geopolitical Rivalries By Uriel Araujo The India-Pakistan conflict, intensified by the 2025 Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, draws Middle Eastern powers like Israel and Turkiye, alongside Azerbaijan, into a complex web of… Read More ›
Lavrov Made Three Important Points About Russia’s Military Diplomacy By Andrew Korybko It’s in Russia’s interests to amplify these points in order to counter weaponized misportrayals of its military diplomacy that are meant to discredit Russian policy by presenting it as… Read More ›
CSTO Under Siege: How the West and Turkiye are Rewriting Eurasia’s Security Map By Uriel Araujo Turkiye and the West are exploiting Armenia’s frustrations with the CSTO to promote the concept of a “Turan Army,” aiming to bring NATO closer to… Read More ›
Armenia’s Westward Drift: A Misstep In The Caucasus? By Uriel Araujo The hard truth is that the Caucasus doesn’t reward rigid alliances. As Azerbaijan’s spat with Russia shows, even close partners (however complex that partnership is) can clash without upending the… Read More ›
Azerbaijan Signalled That It Might Be Preparing Its Own Special Operation Against Armenia By Andrew Korybko Azerbaijan demands that Armenia demilitarize, denazify, no longer contain it on behalf of foreign (Western) powers, stop obstructing regional trade routes, and allow ethnically cleansed… Read More ›
The West Is Ramping Up Its Regime Change Campaign In Georgia By Andrew Korybko The immense political pressure being placed upon the ruling party by the West is punishment for its pragmatic domestic and foreign policies. The Georgian capital of Tbilisi… Read More ›
Armenia Isn’t All That Important To Iran’s Economic And National Security By Andrew Korybko Iran has ulterior motives for opposing the Zangezur Corridor. Iran’s continued opposition to the Zangezur Corridor, which was earlier analysed here and here, is predicated on the assumption that… Read More ›
Elaborating On Iran’s Continued Opposition To The Zangezur Corridor By Andrew Korybko This is no longer a small matter after the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian Ambassador to share their concerns with him about his country’s support of this project…. Read More ›
Interpreting Iran’s Continued Opposition To The Zangezur Corridor By Andrew Korybko This policy is self-serving and justified on false pretexts, but it’s Iran’s sovereign right to promulgate in advance of what its leadership regards as their national interests. The Iranian Supreme… Read More ›