- Burak Bekdil
- Paper No. 1982
Turkey, a member of NATO, now effectively has a jihadi proxy force that it has deployed in its Syrian homeland as well as in faraway war theaters like Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.
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- Emil Avdaliani
- Paper No. 1972
Western pundits spend a great deal of time trying to determine โwho lost Turkey.โ Ankaraโs relations with the West are indeed tense, but there will be no severing of ties or withdrawal from NATO. Ankara is attempting a balancing act in which it diversifies its external ties to include Eurasia rather than remain anchored solely to the West.
- Emil Avdaliani
- Paper No. 1968
Western pundits spend a great deal of time trying to determine โwho lost Turkey.โ Ankaraโs relations with the West are indeed tense, but there will be no severing of ties or withdrawal from NATO. Ankara is attempting a balancing act in which it diversifies its external ties to include Eurasia rather than remain anchored solely to the West.
The Caspian basin is inextricably linked to the greater Middle Eastโs myriad conflicts and the fluid and fragile nature of regional alliances, partnerships, and animosities across the Eurasian landmass.
- Emil Avdaliani
- Paper No. 1858
As the world awaits Joe Bidenโs inauguration as president of the US, Washingtonโs relations with China are under primary scrutiny. However, ties with Russia are no less important, as the two states have numerous differences across Eurasia. Washington will have to apply a careful balance of pressure on Russia to keep it from growing closer to China, and Biden possesses the statesmanship and experience to accomplish this. US-Russia relations under Biden should be strikingly different from what they were during the Trump administration.
- Emil Avdaliani
- Paper No. 1816
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has become an important component of Turkish foreign policy. Over the years, Ankaraโs support for Baku has grown exponentially. Diplomacy was an element of this support, but moreย significant was the dispatch of sophisticated weaponry. Greater support for Azerbaijan coincided with Turkeyโs more active foreign policy in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, and is now strikingly different from Ankara-Baku relations of the 1990s and even the early 2010s. The reason for Ankaraโs assertiveness could be access to energy and trade routes.
- Jason E. Strakes
- Paper No. 1798
While government officials and others have alleged a strategy that involves Russian-sponsored security organizations in recent escalations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, these claims are largely misconceptions. The conventional wisdom fails to recognize these structures as representing alternative security perceptions held by Russia and other participating states rather than traditional NATO-style military alliances.
- Emil Avdaliani
- Paper No. 1788
The world is an increasingly unstable place. This is reflected in the way supply chains, a pillar of the globalized world, are changing. More and more countries are considering moving away from their dependence on China to the Indo-China region, which has a burgeoning population and rising economies. This process will accelerate as differences between the West and China multiply.
- Arvin Khoshnood
- Paper No. 1778
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh has put the Islamic regime of Iran in a difficult position. While the government is trying to be neutral, other regime elements have openly taken sides in the conflict.
- Emil Avdaliani
- Paper No. 1742
Belarus is the last remaining state on Russiaโs western border not to have experienced a popular revolution since the 1990s, but revolutionary fervor is growing there. Events in Minsk have great geopolitical import,ย as one would expect from a state located between Russia and Europe.