Regardless of the outcome, there’s another path to ensuring that progress doesn’t stall.

The U.S.-sponsored TRIPP deal is driving the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process forward. But foreign and domestic hurdles remain before connectivity and economic interdependence can open up the South Ca...

The conflict is threatening stability in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Thomas de Waal, Zaur Shiriyev, and Areg Kochinyan examine recent shifts in Armenia–Azerbaijan relations and explore future trajectories in the South Caucasus.

An official peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan cannot by itself resolve decades of mistrust. The durability of peace will depend on healing trauma, reframing identities, diversifying narra...

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How common cause against Russia enabled an American deal.

Whether the Washington summit marks a breakthrough or distraction will depend on both leaders’ commitment to finish what they started.

A Ukrainian orchestra and their American conductor withstood Russian missiles to bring music to the city

A delayed peace with Armenia endangers a new regional order.

A delayed peace with Armenia endangers a new regional order.

A delayed peace with Armenia endangers a new regional order.

As the South Caucasus undergoes a strategic realignment, the EU and Turkey have an opportunity to recalibrate their engagement. Converging interests in connectivity, stability, and regional integratio...

As the South Caucasus undergoes a strategic realignment, the EU and Turkey have an opportunity to recalibrate their engagement. Converging interests in connectivity, stability, and regional integratio...

From Georgia to Kazakhstan, all eyes are on the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine—and the outcome will determine Moscow’s capacity to project influence.

Moscow’s distraction and weakening regional grip allowed the peace negotiations to begin. But that may not last.

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Moscow’s distraction and weakening regional grip allowed the peace negotiations to begin. But that may not last.

Официальный представитель МИД РФ отметила, что позиция Армении тоже нередко вызывает вопросы

After decades of conflict, the two moved closer to a peace deal. But outside support, especially from Ankara, is critical to maintain momentum.

To understand the implications of the Azerbaijani Airlines airplane crash on December 25, 2024, for Russian-Azerbaijani relations, we turn to Dr. Zaur Shiriyev, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie R...

People and Trees is a pastoral set in Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1940s. If that sounds dull, then do not be deceived: Akram Aylisli’s novel is anything but.

Reflections on the Caucasus, Türkiye, and Central Asia—politics, culture, and literature, through the lens of Zaur Shiriyev, shared in English and Azerbaijani.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.”

The plane was diverted from Russia and had its GPS jammed before crashing in Kazakhstan, killing 38.