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Russia’s Syrian Predicament Grows Unmanageable

  • June 5, 2020
  • Pavel Baev
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Syria has been an ongoing major focus in Russian security policy since its astounding military intervention in September 2015. Yet, now, it is barely present in political…
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U.S. Disengagement from the South Caucasus: The Throne Is Never Vacant

  • October 26, 2018
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  • October 24, 2018
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(Eurasianet) A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting the Caucasus, where he is expected to try to enlist the region’s three governments in Washington’s campaign of isolating Iran.…
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Levitsky and Way show that regimes spawned by popular revolutions usually share four attributes that enhance their durability

  • May 30, 2018
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Kakachia: It won’t help Armenia’s plans for a transit corridor without concessions from Moscow on Georgia’s breakaway regions

  • April 4, 2018
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(Eurasianet) Armenia and Azerbaijan compete to attract Iranian cargo – Iran has been a fairly marginal player in the South Caucasus, but both Armenia and Azerbaijan are competing to draw it into the…
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Cooley: The whole aesthetic of Trump goes very well with Central Asia

  • June 28, 2017
  • PONARS Eurasia
(McClatchy) Weeks before his inauguration, Donald Trump was allied with a company in the former Soviet republic of Georgia that planned to build a 47-story luxury tower in the Black…
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Markedonov: Nagorno-Karabakh is the only conflict in the post-Soviet area where mutual cooperation between Russia and the West has not stopped

  • May 8, 2017
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(APA) A forceful solution to conflicts in the South Caucasus remains, Sergey Markedonov, a Russian political analyst and associate professor at State University for the Humanities based in Moscow (Russia),…
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Interview with Troitskiy: Russian-backed Syria peace talks suffer a setback

  • May 4, 2017
  • Mikhail Troitskiy
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  • April 11, 2017
  • Pavel Baev
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