Tweeting in Solidarity: Turks Backlash Against Online Sexist Commentary Targeting Ukrainian Refugee Women March 23, 2022
Filmmaking as a Way of Representing Our Experience of the World: An Interview With Mohammad Alimoradi March 02, 2022
A Story of Friendship: Georgia and Ukraine Stand Together Alexander Davitashvili meets up with a couple of Ukrainians stranded in Georgia. March 01, 2022
The Troubled Story of the Tabriz Ark –Are There Deeper Meanings Behind Archaeological Insensitivity? January 31, 2022
A History of Displacement: Meskhetians in Azerbaijan and Ukraine Cling to their Identity January 18, 2022
Turkey-Armenia Talks Hold Promise of Opening Long-Shut Border Turkish and Armenian special envoys will meet in Moscow on 14 January to discuss normalising relations between these long-estranged neighbours. Crisis Group experts Olesya Vartanyan, Nigar Göksel and Zaur Shiriyev unpack how the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020 opened the way for talks. January 13, 2022
The Greener Grass or ‘The Stranger’s Crow’: Why Do Diasporas Romanticize Their Homelands? December 23, 2021
Is Dialogue Viable Amid Continuous Bloodshed? Arnold Alahverdian, the co-founder of Bright Garden Voices, an Armenian-Azerbaijani dialogue platform, comments on the challenges facing the project in light of recent violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan and explains why he maintains hope in what cross-border communication can accomplish. December 13, 2021
Opinion | Back to the ‘No War, No Peace’ Limbo By reversing the dynamic of ‘the victorious’ and ‘the defeated’, the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War revealed illusions and hypocrisies that suffused Armenia’s dominant narratives about the conflict. But despite this clarity, a new dynamic between Armenia and Azerbaijan has not developed. November 10, 2021
Babes in the Dark Woods, Again - How Long Will Canada be a Pawn in the Canadian-Armenian Lobby’s Interests? Duff Crerar shares his perspective on the effect of one-issue lobby groups on Canadian foreign policy. November 04, 2021
Raisi Presidency Challenged to Tackle Three Major Problems Between Iran and Azerbaijan September 18, 2021
Was James’s Cameron’s Multi-billion Grossing Movie Avatar Plagiarized from a Chechen Author’s 2002 Novel? The Courts Decide. September 17, 2021
Why Georgians Don’t Trust Russia: My Historical Overview The relationship between Georgia and Russia has been a long and tumultuous one. Alexander Davitashvili takes a personal look through the history of the countries’ interactions and comes to his own conclusion. September 13, 2021
The Battle of Shusha: Warcraft Has Changed, but Soldiers’ Sweat, Courage and Daring Remain Key to Military Success September 03, 2021
Makhachkala – Much More than Russia’s Garbage Capital Since 2016, Dagestan’s biggest city has been labelled the ‘garbage capital of Russia.’ But that’s not the impression I got. August 30, 2021
Kazakhstan Surges to Third Place in Global Crypto-Currency Production, Behind China and US August 20, 2021
The Taliban Wants the World's Trust. To Achieve This, It Will Need to Make Some Difficult Choices August 18, 2021
As the Taliban Retakes Vast Areas of Afghanistan, What Is the Effect on Neighbouring Countries? August 05, 2021
Fate of Ex-Soviet Exclaves Uncertain in the Wake of Armenia-Azerbaijan War Many Azerbaijanis still harbor hopes of returning to their homes, now completely surrounded by Armenian territory. Armenians aren’t so sure. July 30, 2021
Georgia, a Land of Political Theatre Demonstrations, boycotts, EU mediation and new electoral systems: is Georgia experiencing dangerous polarisation or just the rough and tumble of an evolving democracy? July 28, 2021
In the Karabakh Crisis, Canada Must Support Rules-Based International Order Asking Canada to interfere in the crisis of Armenia's own making has nothing to do with Responsibility to Protect. July 23, 2021
What is Europe, Anyway? An Azerbaijani view of the eternal conflicts between Europe and Asia June 25, 2021
Caspian Basin Central Banks Join the Central Bank Digital Currency Bandwagon What’s going on today with cryptocurrencies around the Caspian Sea. June 08, 2021
Lunch in Paris: Macron and Pashinyan At a press conference with his Armenian counterpart, the French President’s comments excite news-sites in Yerevan. But is this simply a storm in a tea cup? June 02, 2021
Task of Demarcating Armenian-Azerbaijani Border Made More Difficult by Armenian Politicization of the Issue, Russian Analysts Say June 02, 2021
Smart Villages and Smart Cities: An Avenue for Reconstruction? Funding the reconstruction of towns and villages will have to go well beyond replacing the stones and tiles, bricks and mortar of the physical structures. To ensure that people return to their long-lost homes, there will need to be economic opportunity. June 01, 2021
The 28th of May Azerbaijan's "Republic Day": the most powerfully symbolic date in the national calendar? May 28, 2021
Poisoned Earth: The Futile Curse of Land Mines “Today, on land that Azerbaijan regained after the 2020 Second Karabakh War, there are an evil pick-n-mix of landmines, pink-ribboned cluster bombs, grenades, and all. But Armenia is in no mood to give up the locations of this fearful harvest.” May 19, 2021
Canadian Foreign Policy Can’t Simultaneously Support Territorial Integrity and Separatism April 30, 2021
Biden Must Press Armenia to Hand Over Minefield Maps Mines in Nagorno-Karabakh are killing civilians and troops. April 24, 2021
What Do TAP Gas Deliveries from Azerbaijan Mean for European Markets? TAP will catalyze further infrastructure connectivity in Southeast Europe (SEE) and the western Balkans through the building of new interconnectors. April 19, 2021
Canadians and the Caucasus: How We Covered a War Canadian peacekeepers have learned at great cost that simply drawing a line across the past only goes halfway to making a peaceful present and future. April 18, 2021
Armenia Sends Soldiers Back into Karabakh Such movements observed in February this year, could complicate implementing the trilateral declarations among Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia, thanks to which the military hostilities of the 2020 Second Karabakh War were ended. April 17, 2021
How Caspian Basin Countries Can Rebound from a Covid-infected Economy Overall, the Covid-19 pandemic must be taken as an opportunity for reflection across the region. March 25, 2021