Moscow and Beijing Against a Turbulent World

The Russian president’s first visit to Iturup was not a sightseeing trip but a calculated political signal. Peace treaty negotiations are now likely to remain frozen for years, while the territorial dispute is becoming increasingly entangled in the...

Japan Turns Toward Azerbaijan: Oil, Logistics, and a New Eurasian Strategy The first official visit to Tokyo in seventeen years by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov may have received relatively restrained coverage in the Japanese press,...

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has departed for Japan on an official visit. It is the first official visit by an Azerbaijani foreign minister to Japan in the past 17 years. When Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov traveled...

Every time tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz, global markets react almost instinctively: oil prices surge, governments grow anxious and investors rush toward safe-haven assets.