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Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan’s Dispute over the Caspian Sea: Will It Impede the Nabucco Project?

On July 24, 2009, Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov convened a special session of the government to discuss issues related to ownership of the Caspian oil and gas fields. At the…

What’s In Store For Color Revolutions? Managing a New Rise of Discontent in a Time of Crisis

The angry and hopeless demonstrations in the streets of Tehran last June did not resemble the enthusiastic “happenings” on Kyiv’s maidan (main square) in November 2004. However, successive eruptions of…

The Making of a De Facto State: Warlords and Militarized Society in Nagorno-Karabakh

“Warlordism” is sometimes seen as a self-repairing strategy for weak states. This memo assesses the rise of the twin phenomena of warlordism and militarism in the de facto state of…

Finlandization or Strategy of Keeping the Balance? Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy Since the Russian-Georgian War

The two years since the end of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian war have represented a critical stage in Azerbaijan’s foreign policy. The war generated a new source of instability and…

Neither Friend nor Foe: Perceptions of Russia in Azerbaijan

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijani-Russian relations have undergone significant change. Consequently, the perception of Russia by ordinary Azerbaijanis has also often changed. Several factors have been influential…

Energizing the Western Response to Democratic Setbacks in Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia

The most recent elections in the three states of the South Caucasus and in Kyrgyzstan have all represented strong setbacks for the development of democracy. While the specific situations are…

Why Did Lukoil Really Pull Out of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli Oilfield?

July 23, 2012

In late November 2002, Russia’s largest oil company, Lukoil, created a flurry of speculation over its decision to withdraw from the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), a major Caspian oil consortium. Given…

The Russian-Georgian Crisis and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan

July 23, 2012

In the early fall of 2002, two developments concerning Georgia garnered a great deal of attention. The first was the groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which has…

Peace-Building and Conflict Resolution in Nagorno-Karabakh

Efforts to resolve ethnic conflict often run aground of the passionate public hostility that underlies them, as the recent Israeli-Palestinian violence illustrates. These popular passions are often the biggest obstacles…

America’s Caspian Policy Under the Bush Administration

At the time of this writing there is no indication of any major change in America's Caspian policy under the Bush administration. On the contrary, a conservative policy agenda will…

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