PSCRP-BESA Reports No 188 (March 9, 2026)
by Gershon Kogan
Debates about Iran’s possible fragmentation tend to reproduce the same conceptual error: state breakdown is framed as a geopolitical event — sudden, discrete, visible. Fragmentation is better understood as a …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 187 (March 7, 2026)
The Iranian regime is making desperate efforts to draw as many countries as possible into the war. This strategic calculation pursues several objectives. Even before the outbreak of hostilities, Tehran had warned that …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 186 (February 26, 2026)
The February 2026 visit of U.S. Vice President JD Vance to Yerevan and Baku — the first time a sitting American vice president has set foot in either country — marks the consolidation …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 185 (February 24, 2026)
January turned out to be a positive surprise: the speed of global transformations, the emergence of new configurations of interests, and new roles for seemingly traditional actors were fully on display across the …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 184 (February 18, 2026)
by Boris Ginzburg
Between November 27 and December 7, 2025, Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka undertook a major foreign trip. In addition to visiting two Asian countries (Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar), the internationally isolated …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 183 (February 17, 2026)
The European Union’s 20th sanctions package marks an unprecedented escalation: for the first time, Brussels is targeting a port in a country that holds EU candidate status. Georgia’s Kulevi terminal, now implicated in …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 181 (February 09, 2026)
By Alexander Shpunt
On January 31, 2026, Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Commission published the first official draft of a new Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This is not merely a set of amendments but …
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 …
