Will the Syrian Kurds Strike a Deal with Moscow?
By Fuad Shahbazov, Baku-based independent regional security and defence analyst
President Donald Trump’s announcement at the end of 2018 that he would withdraw U.S. troops from Syria came as a surprise to all parties involved, sparking particular concerns among America’s Syrian Kurdish allies. The move followed President Trump’s declaration of victory over ISIS after a four-year military campaign fighting alongside Syrian Kurdish forces. This sudden and unexpected decision has been widely criticized not only by allies but also inside the White House, with many analysts arguing that the U.S. withdrawal will expose the Syrian Kurds to an attack by Turkey READ MORE
- Wednesday, 6 February 2019, 07:26
Ceasefire Violations Down as Armenia and Azerbaijan Implement South Caucasus Study Group Recommendation By EGF Editorial Staff
Since the end of October 2018, a new operative communication line (crisis hotline) has been established between Armenia and Azerbaijan, two countries that have been at war over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh (NK), a region recognized as Azerbaijani by the International Community, but inhabited by a majority Armenian population.
According to official sources from both sides, the level of military tension on the Line of Contact (LoC) between the conflicting parties has significantly decreased (from about 90 reports of ceasefire breaches/day, to about 20 reports/day). The opening of this new communication channel had been agreed several weeks before by the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and the Prime-Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, during an informal meeting held in the margins of the CIS summit in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) on 27-28 September 2018. READ MORE
- Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 06:39
Armenia’s “Velvet Revolution” and the Karabakh Conflict Resolution
By George Vlad Niculescu, Head of Research, the European Geopolitical Forum
On 17 April 2018, Armenia’s National Assembly overwhelmingly voted to install Serzh Sargsyan -former president of the country- as prime minister. They unequivocally ignored the “voice of the street” calling for a change of face at the helm of this rather small, but ambitious post-Soviet state. This vote was supposed to conclude a power capture scheme started back in 2015.[…] Under pressure from independent civil society, then president Sargsyan had promised not to turn up as candidate for the prime-ministerial post. READ MORE
- Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 20:20
The Turkmenistan-Pakistan strategic partnership gathers momentum: as the great 'gas game' in Eurasia comes closer to a final realization By Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan, EGF Associated Expert on South Asian geopolitics,
The view from Lahore, Pakistan
Turkmenistan and Pakistan traditionally enjoy close, cordial relations marked by trust and understanding. Bilateral collaboration is growing steadily in a number of sectors. Indeed, on January 15-16, 2018 one of Turkmenistan's most prominent political figures, Rashid Meredov, conducted an official visit to Pakistan. READ MORE
- Monday, 12 February 2018, 18:42
Armenia’s U-turn back to ‘multi-vector foreign policy’
By Stepan Grigoryan, Head, Analytical Centre for Globalisation and Regional Cooperation, Armenia
The statement from the President of Armenia in September 2013 sounded like a bolt from the blue. He would not sign the Association Agreement with the European Union at the planned November Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, he said. Instead, Armenia would be joining the Russian led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). This signified Armenia's departure from a multi-vector foreign policy. READ MORE
- Wednesday, 17 January 2018, 09:54
Who Will Pay for Making America Great Again?
Sergey Korol, European Geopolitical Forum
American politics, in general, and its energy version in particular, resemble a chess game but according to the rules of American football.
The US plans to become a leading player in the world energy market do not coincide with the interests of other major players, including OPEC countries and Russia. READ MORE
- Friday, 18 August 2017, 05:29
New Russian Order in the Middle East? By Dr.Cyril Widdershoven, EGF Affiliated Expert, Military geopolitics
Military environment in the Mediterranean is changing according to the chess plans of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin. After bridging the immense opposition Russia was encountering during and after the demise of the USSR, a new Russian influence sphere has been built up of unforeseen order. It how the situation is perceived by Western leaders and military experts.
Re-emergence of Russian military assets and bilateral and multilateral relations with Arab countries is now being substantiated by the set-up of new military alliances in and around the Mediterranean. READ MORE
What Can We Expect from 2017 in the Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict? - UPDATED
Interview with Azenglishnews.com by George Vlad Niculescu,
Head of Research, the European Geopolitical Forum
I would hope to see the year 2017 becoming a watershed in the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict resolution. To that end, one essential requirement is for the conflicting parties to identify a political compromise that would underpin the conclusion of a peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh. It is deemed widely that the inability to produce a resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict so far was, to a large extent, linked to the dilemma regarding the prevailing legal and political principles that would be applicable. READ MORE
- Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 04:22
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