Azerbaijan News & Analysis

The 2025 US National Security Strategy shifts the United States decisively away from expansive regional engagement in the South Caucasus, instead favoring selective, interest-driven involvement.

No single actor owns the Middle Corridor, and its success will hinge not on great power interests, but on regional stakeholders whose collaboration will move the Eurasian trade route forward.

The Zangezur Corridor is a transformative initiative that hopes to reshape trade and economic landscapes across Eurasia, but it’s not without it’s challenges.

The recent Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal underscores the new geopolitics of the South Caucasus, one where the region is no longer merely a post-Soviet periphery but a pivotal crossroads in broader global strategic competition.

The Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement illustrates the critical role that incremental diplomacy can play in conflict resolution. It’s also one where middle powers can take the lead.

The chaotic conclusion of the decades-long Nagorno-Karabakh dispute was a blow to Russian influence in the South Caucasus. Now Washington is moving to fill the vacuum.

Though separated by a decade, these two high-profile air tragedies invite a comparative analysis of both the technical circumstances and geopolitical consequences surrounding them.

This week we cover the prospect of Beijing backing down in the US-China trade war; Brazil’s tariff preparations; trouble in the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process; the fate of South Africa's ruling coalition; and Taiwan’s role in the latest trade tensions.

Increasingly desperate to ease Iran’s water crisis, the authorities are now looking to harness the likely toxic waters of the Aras River.

The Middle Corridor has risen to prominence as global supply chains adapt to new geopolitical realities. Yet challenges remain before the corridor can fully supplant traditional Eurasian routes.

Mounting insecurity and conflict are expanding the geopolitical role of the Organization of Turkic States, creating new inroads into Central Asia for Türkiye.

A parallel can be drawn between the 1939 partition of Poland and the contemporary geopolitics of the South Caucasus. And like the 1939 crisis, the current situation could have profound effects on regional stability and global security.

As the world gathers in Azerbaijan, achieving a strong consensus on critical issues like climate financing, green energy diversification, and pollution reduction will be challenging – but not impossible.

Long delayed and ever controversial, the INSTC is a ‘sanctions free’ trade corridor that aims to recalibrate Eurasian trade flows. This backgrounder examines the interests and geopolitics surrounding the project.

The superiority of Western weapons and training, at least vis-à-vis Russian military equipment, has been established beyond a doubt on the battlefields of Karabakh and Ukraine.