CESRAN Int.

By Joanna Lillis | 09 June 2010 It has been widely reported that Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has rejected parliament-approved amendments to enhance his executive powers. But Nazarbayev’s refusal to sign the...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 01 June 2010 The South Caucasus is a region where a number of unresolved conflicts still exist in the absence of regional security arrangements. Indeed, three unresolved (Nagorno-Karabakh,...

By Paul Richardson | 01 June 2010 The Southern Kurils are three islands and a cluster of rocky outcrops that lie off the north-east coast of Hokkaido. The Japanese collectively refer to...

By Zaur SHIRIYEV | 31 May 2010 The European Parliament, or EP, approved a report on May 20 on the need for a European Union strategy for the South Caucasus, which stresses...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 21 May 2010   Turkey’s recent shuttle diplomacy between Moscow, Baku and Tbilisi has indirectly confirmed the strategic depth of its foreign policy as the country seeks to...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 17 May 2010 In recent weeks, Armenian parliamentarians and political analysts have called on Armenian diaspora organizations to press for international recognition of the Armenian regime in Karabakh...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 29 April 2010   Religious leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan made a call in Baku for a peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The head of the...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 22 April 2010   The word "change" has recently become rather popular in political campaigns, starting of course with that of U.S. President Barack Obama, who perhaps led...

By Assoc. Prof. Bayram Gungor | 01 April 2010 It is widely known that the most basic form of integrations is the cooperation agreements. However, cooperation agreements are different from...

By Dr. Ayla Gol | 01 April 2010   Has anyone who is interested in Turkish and Armenian relations been really surprised that the most recent diplomatic attempts to normalise relations between...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 01 April 2010 Peace talks to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been under way for more than a decade with virtually no tangible progress. The last few weeks...

By Oleg Orlov | 31 March 2010 In the Northern Caucasus (including Chechnya), underground militia which use terrorist methods are fighting the Russian state. In turn, the state and its military structures,...

By Mehmet Ali Birand | 30 March 2010   The Armenian people get up each morning thinking of genocide, talking about Turkey during the day and watch news on TV about Erdoğan...

By David Trilling | 30 March 2010       Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been taking a beating in the Russian press over the last week. The burst of media attacks suggests...

By Ahmed Rashid | 30 March 2010     When Pakistan's powerful army chief, Gen Ashfaq Kayani, and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi got off the plane in Washington to conduct what...