PSCRP-BESA Reports No 181 (January 30, 2026)
By Gershon Kogan, PhD, Orientalist, Specialist in Iranian Studies
Introduction: Framing the Problem
In recent analyses of the post-Soviet space, a persistent analytical gap remains between how Israeli–Azerbaijani relations are typically described and …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 178 (January 17, 2026)
By Alexander Shpunt
The task of regulating legal labor migration by the end of the first quarter of the new century has turned into one of the most powerful configurators of domestic political …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 177 (January 14, 2026)
Armenia finds itself at a pivotal juncture in its modern history. The August 2025 peace declaration brokered by President Donald Trump in Washington offered Yerevan something previously unimaginable: a pathway to normalized relations …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 176 (January 09, 2026)
Not only the events and news of the newly begun year have their roots in 2025. The research and academic publications from December that we present to our readers in the January monitoring …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 175 (January 08, 2026)
by Kiryl Kascian
The recent developments around Lithuania’s public broadcaster, LRT, caught a lot of attention both within the country and internationally. The situation runs deeper than just legislative efforts to reform LRT’s …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 174 (December 30, 2025)
The Baltic states are preparing for war — not a hypothetical conflict decades away, but one their leaders believe could come within five years. “Russia is a threat today, tomorrow and in the …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 173 (December 24, 2025)
A working visit to Israel by Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan on November 27 triggered a sharp reaction in Iran. Particular concern was caused by the fact that Israeli media placed special …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 172 (December 19, 2025)
Selecting an overarching frame for the academic works we chose for the December issue of our monitoring bulletin, we noticed that all of them, in one way or another, touch upon the civilizational …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 171 (December 15, 2025)
The role and place of the new U.S. National Security Strategy (2025) within the framework of the existing international order
By Alexander Shpunt
The U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS-2025) is not merely another …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 169 (December 5, 2025)
For Russia’s neighbors, proximity is a liability — and Kazakhstan may want to study how the Baltic states are preparing for the next shock.
Living next door to the Russian Federation is less …
