Georgia News & Analysis

The current protest movement represents a crossroads for Georgia, with one path leading toward Brussels and the other Moscow.

The list of fields of potential cooperation between the South Caucasus and Central Asia is endless; it’s time for this potential to be realized at the institutional level.

It’s not just regional security concerns, but a power play against the Middle Corridor that is driving Russian plans for a naval base in Georgia’s breakaway region.

The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route is emerging as an alternative to the Trans-Siberian railway as Russian isolation deepens amid the Ukraine war.

A new trade deal between Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova could give new life to the long-dormant regional grouping.

With the Ukraine war now dominating Moscow’s attention, longstanding geopolitical certainties are beginning to unravel in Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia.

There’s never been a better time to consolidate economic ties with the strategically important Caucasus nation.

In tilting too far in favor of Armenia, Russia risks losing its longstanding influence over Azerbaijan.

It appears as though the Georgian government has tumbled from the tightrope it has long been walking between Russia and the West.

Another former Soviet republic is pushing for EU and NATO membership, stoking fears of another Ukraine crisis.

Ankara and Moscow have found a common cause in the Syrian civil war, but geopolitical disagreements in the South Caucuses and beyond will thwart too close of a détente.

It’s getting harder and harder for Russia to maintain its network of breakaway territories in the post-Soviet space.

How will Russia respond to Iranian attempts at making economic and diplomatic inroads into the South Caucasus?

Russia has expanded the military demarcation line in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia.

The world of today has no shortage of failed examples of top-down institution building, but that’s not to say that pulling a failed state back from the brink is an impossible feat.