Politics

Landlocked Armenia, surrounded on two sides by unrelenting foes, has limited access to the outside world. Railways could potentially help alleviate this isolation by providing reliable outside connections for trade and passenger traffic.

Azerbaijan has been using military and diplomatic coercion to achieve its maximalist and expansionist objectives, employing wide-ranging tools of hybrid war while also deceiving and harassing international actors. Sossi Tatikyan explains.

The issue of tiny but strategically placed Soviet-era enclaves in Armenia and Azerbaijan has come to the forefront of peace talks in recent months. Hovhannes Nazaretyan maps it out.

As the geopolitical landscape in the South Caucasus remains precarious, potential changes in EU and U.S. leadership can pose additional challenges for Armenia. Amid these uncertainties, Armenia's diplomatic efforts become increasingly important and serve as a test of its resilience.

The Non-Aligned Movement is a diplomatic platform where Azerbaijan, as a major oil-producing nation, tries to exert influence by supporting ex-colonies that are purportedly fighting colonialism. Garren Jansezian explains.

President Ilham Aliyev consistently delivered speeches full of hateful rhetoric directed at the Armenian people as the blockade of Artsakh was ongoing and even after the ethnic cleansing of the Armenians. Tatevik Hayrapetyan provides a compilation of some of Aliyev’s statements from the past year.

Since the restoration of its independence in 1991, Armenia has sought to maintain a balance of power in the region. However, maintaining this balance became challenging starting from the early years. Sossi Tatikyan presents an overview and analysis of Armenia’s foreign and security policies spanning three decades.

Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran deteriorated following the 2020 Artsakh War. Did the visit of Iran’s Foreign Minister to Baku in July 2023 succeed in resolving existing differences? Or should ongoing tensions between Baku and Tehran be anticipated?

Even a cursory examination of the events in Nagorno-Karabakh provides a solid basis to assert the existence of a potential case for a crime against humanity of forced deportation under the Rome Statute stemming from Azerbaijan’s attack in September 2023.

Will Armenia turn away from Russia and adopt an explicitly pro-Western foreign and security policy, or will it only diversify its partners to reduce its dependence on Russia? Sossi Tatikyan explains.