Foreign policy

The Mecca agreement strengthens deterrence against Iran and Iran-linked forces, while also reflecting concern about Israel and doubts over the reliability of United States security guarantees Turkey,...

The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan, or SOFAZ, has invested in Inkia Energy, Peru’s largest independent power producer, through a vehicle managed by U.S. investment firm I Squared Capital, expanding its...

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party victory in the parliamentary election has given the Armenian leadership a new mandate to diversify its foreign policy. However, the first steps taken by the gove...

Türkiye’s efforts to retain Russian gas supplies while expanding fuel exports to Europe are increasing Azerbaijan’s importance as a supplier of gas with verifiable origins. However, turning Turkish te...

Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov’s official visit indicates that Baku is gradually moving its relationship with Ukraine beyond humanitarian assistance and into the fields of energy, economics, and sec...

The Kazakh president’s proposal envisages a shift from military escalation to an updated Istanbul format with the participation of mutually agreed international guarantors Kazakh President Kassym-Joma...

Tehran, which once vowed to prevent a U.S.-backed transport project from emerging along its northern border, is changing tactics. Instead of trying to block the Trump Route, Iran is seeking to develop...

The level of the Caspian Sea is falling faster than ports, coastal cities, oil and gas infrastructure and environmental protection systems can adapt. Over the past five years, the sea has lost about o...

Washington and Yerevan promise to turn 42 kilometres of abandoned railway into a new link between Asia and Europe. But behind the talk of peace and prosperity remain questions about sovereignty, the p...

Washington and Beijing's rivalry is reaching the region through standards, capital, and logistics before it arrives through troops. For Baku, the central challenge is not choosing a side, but preservi...

Masoud Pezeshkian’s denial that he intends to resign was supposed to project stability. Instead, it exposed the depth of the struggle between Iran’s civilian administration, religious conservatives an...

Systematic Ukrainian drone strikes on Wildberries warehouse complexes have marked a new direction in Kyiv’s campaign deep inside Russia. While earlier attacks mainly targeted oil refineries, fuel depo...

The Swiss foreign minister’s itinerary brings together several objectives: an attempt to restore the OSCE’s political relevance, a search for new business opportunities and Europe’s growing interest i...

The Caspian Sea, long regarded as an area relatively insulated from major international conflicts, is rapidly becoming a zone where military, energy and transport interests intersect. Russia retains a...

At first glance, the Middle Corridor is experiencing a boom. The geopolitical transformation of recent years has turned the Middle Corridor from an alternative route into a critically important artery...

Across the Caspian to a New Asia: How Azerbaijan Is Redrawing the Boundaries of Regional Cooperation An informal meeting of Central Asian leaders in Cholpon-Ata showed that a region long caught betwee...