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 ›
Pan-Turkism Was Dealt A Blow After Central Asia Threw Northern Cyprus Under The Bus By Andrew Korybko Some in Russia are breathing a sigh of relief that Pan-Turkism isn’t taken as seriously by the Central Asian countries as they thought and… 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 ›
The Newly Signed Russian-Iranian Transit Roadmap Is Promising But Still Incomplete By Andrew Korybko The two greatest obstacles to the North-South Transport Corridor are the Azerbaijani-Iranian security dilemma and the US’ reinstated “maximum pressure” policy against the Islamic Republic. Russia and… Read More ›
Why Central Asia And Russia Are Unlikely To Rely More On Pakistani Ports For Foreign Trade By Andrew Korybko All in all, while it makes economic sense for them to do so, it’s not politically feasible at present. The Pakistani Energy… Read More ›
Assessing The Feasibility Of A Russian Gas Pipeline To China Through Kazakhstan By Andrew Korybko The only reason why Kazakhstan is being considered either as a complement or an alternative to Mongolia as a transit state to China is for political… Read More ›
Kazakhstan’s Ambitious Regionalization Vision Presents Obstacles And Opportunities For Russia By Andrew Korybko Trilateral Russian-Iranian-Indian cooperation could gently balance Turkiye’s rapidly expanding influence in Central Asia. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev shared an ambitious regionalization vision in his de facto manifesto earlier… Read More ›
The Latest Unrest In Gwadar Imperils Pakistan’s Eurasian Connectivity Plans By Andrew Korybko Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics are more inclined to focus their exports on Iran’s North-South Transport Corridor instead of Pakistan’s CPEC so long as the Baloch Conflict… Read More ›
Kyrgyzstan’s Decision To Stop Accepting Russia’s Mir Bank Card Is Unfortunate But Understandable By Andrew Korybko This tiny country can’t realistically resist the US on the financial front, but everything that it’s doing on the political one proves that it doesn’t… Read More ›
Is It Time For Russia To Close Its Open Border Policy With Central Asia? By Andrew Korybko This arrangement is economically beneficial but exposes Russia to security risks. The fact that Friday night’s terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall venue in Moscow was committed… Read More ›
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