When Russia will Ready to Join the WTO…*
By Dr. Zura Garakanidze | 20 December 2010 Russia's persistent interest in Iranian energy projects casts a problematic light over its bid to join the World Trade Organisation. Moscow is already...
How Alliance Politics Affects The Resolution Of Conflicts In The South Caucasus?*
By Zaur Shiriyev | 15 December 2010 Alliance politics is an important factor affecting threats and conflicts in South Caucasus region. Alliances in this region are a direct reaction to the...
What will NATO’s new Strategic Concept adopt?
By Zaur Shiriyev | 14 November 2010 NATO's next summit in Lisbon, scheduled for Nov. 19-21, will highlight five pertinent topics: the adoption of a new Strategic Concept, operations in Afghanistan,...
Confine Your Operations to Afghanistan, Islamabad Tells Washington
By Shahid R. Siddiqi | 12 October 2010 Fears have been expressed for a long time that successful resistance by the Pashtun Taliban against American occupation of Afghanistan and the imminent defeat...
Finally an Ambassador to Azerbaijan?
By Zaur Shiriyev | 23 September 2010 On Wednesday, a lot of Azerbaijani people expressed their great delight at the approval of Matthew Bryza as the new ambassador to Azerbaijan by...
Kosovo and Karabakh: Looking back at the Future
By Zaur Shiriyev | 17 September 2010 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on 22 July that Kosovo's declaration of secession from Serbia did not break international law. In...
‘Samsun-Ceyhan pipe talks stalled’
By Upstream | 17 September 2010 The head of Russia's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said today that talks on building the Samsun-Ceyhan oil link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...
An Amazing Look Into the Past
By Prof. Barry Rubin | 29 August 2010 Although this is a bit outside what I usually discuss (but I have an excuse coming up in a moment), I recommend to...
Viewpoint: Throwing the Afghan Baby Out With Bath Water
By Ahmed Rashid | 04 August 2010 There have been doubts in the US and Europe about the war in Afghanistan and clamour for an even earlier withdrawal of international...
Divide Afghanistan at Your Peril
By Ahmed Rashid | 03 August 2010 Over the past 32 years, Afghans have fought a series of wars to keep their country together. For all the machinations of great powers...
Extracting Change in Afghanistan’s Development Quagmire
By Aunohita Mojumdar | 29 July 2010 The girls' high school under construction in Jabal Seraj could have turned out like any other development project in the area: crumbling and dangerous. Afghanistan...
Only talks with the Taliban can end an unwinnable war
By Ahmed Rashid | 26 July 2010 This week's conference in Kabul to determine the future of international support for Afghanistan is critical. The meeting, attended by Foreign Secretary William Hague, US...
“Time Tested Friendship”: Azerbaijan–Georgian Relations
By Zaur Shiriyev | 26 July 2010 "After the August war" - most political analysts use this quote when discussing events after the Georgian-Russian war in 2008, which changed the political map...
Pentagon Paid Airport Fees to Turkmenistan, But Can’t Say How Much
By Deirdre Tynan | 12 July 2010 For more than six years, the Pentagon paid fees to the Turkmen government for the use of the Central Asian nation’s airports. However, officials in...
Is Gazprom Waiting to Pounce on a Piece of a Georgian Pipeline?
By Nino Pasturia | 13 July 2010 An effort to remove Georgia’s North-South gas pipeline from a list of strategic state-owned properties is stirring controversy. Officials in Tbilisi maintain that full privatization...