Baku Between Tehran, Israel and Washington: The Limits of Foreign-Policy Balance

When Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev took the floor at the SCO Plus meeting on September 1, his speech was devoted less to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization itself than to the new political reality that Baku is seeking to establish in the...

When the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathered in a new congress hall in the Kyrgyz capital, the scale of the meeting carried a political message of its own. Seated around the same table were the leaders of China, Russia, India, Iran and the nations of Central Asia — countries that together represent more than 40 percent of the world’s population and nearly a quarter of its economy.

The leaders of China, Russia, India, Iran and the Central Asian states gathered in Bishkek on 1 September for an anniversary summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation — a grouping that increasingly aspires to serve as the political voice of...

More than two years after handing the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement to Uganda, Azerbaijan has retained leadership over two structures created at its initiative, as well as a broad network of contacts across the Global South. However, Baku...