Posts by Նորայր ԴՈՒՆԱՄԱԼՅԱՆ
The Syrian “window of missed opportunities”: features of RF’s half-hearted foreign policy strategy
By December 2024, RF defense minister Andrey Belousov outlined the priorities in the field of ensuring Russia’s security at an expanded meeting of the ministry’s board, noting “the fulfillment of individual tasks” and the military presence in Central Asia and Africa, the Caucasus, and Transnistria.
Whose interests does the Middle Corridor serve?
The importance of the Middle Corridor (also known as the Central Corridor or the “Trans-Caspian Transport Route”) has increased sharply in 2022-2024 against the background of the reform of the Eurasian land and sea routes due to the war in Ukraine and the blockade of the Suez Canal.
The “Final” disintegration of the Post-Soviet Space: building a new structure of regional relations
Over the past decade, the relevance of the term “post-Soviet space” has been questioned multiple times. Critics argue that the collapse of the USSR marked the fall of a colonial empire, where Russia’s dominance was the only unifying element.
On the basis of the Azerbaijani position about the “territorial claims of Armenia recorded in the Constitution of the RA”
The present Azerbaijani policy is largely based on “reverse” propaganda, projecting the reasonable criticism of the destructive actions of the Azerbaijani authorities on their opponents, in particular – on Armenia. I.
GEOPOLITICAL POSITIONING OF THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WEST – RUSSIA OPPOSITION: MOTIVES, SUBJECTS AND FACTORS
The article examines the specifics of the role of the South Caucasus in the system of international relations within the light of the previous (until 2020) balance of interests between Russia and the West, as well as their current confrontation. The author presents a brief analysis of the history of the relations between the centers of power in the South Caucasus after the collapse of the USSR, and also highlights the key problems that may arise in the process of revising the place of the South Caucasus region within the context of the modern geopolitics.
