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January 07, 2026
Thomas de Waal
Thomas de Waal
Nonresident senior associate with Carnegie Europe
Armenia’s Revolution and the Karabakh Conflict
All Change in Armenia The headline from Armenia following a much-disputed referendum on December 6 is that the country has a new constitution and will soon have a parliamentary system of government. But more people are paying attention to the short-term politics than to the long-term implications of the vote.
Iran in the Caucasus: A Long Haul For the past 25 years, Iran has been a big but frustrated bystander in the South Caucasus, watching events to the north but playing little part in them. Now the framework deal struck on April 2 opens up the prospect of a new rapprochement between the West and Teheran, and Iran’s Caucasian neighbors are asking: Will that change?
Armenian Maneuvers
Out of Ideas in Sochi On August 10 Russian leader Vladimir Putin convened a trilateral meeting between himself, Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev in Sochi.
Karabakh’s Guns of August More gunfire disturbed this unquiet summer over the last few days, this time across the Armenian-Azerbaijani ceasefire line.
A US challenge on Karabakh For the first time in many years, the U.S. government made its own policy statement on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict on Wednesday on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the 1994 ceasefire.
Armenia and Turkey: 2015 Begins Today The statement by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the "Armenian Question” goes further than any other Turkish leader before him.
Crimea and Karabakh The repercussions of the Russian takeover of Crimea continue to cascade across the post-Soviet space.
Georgia: Worrying About the Wrong Neighbor Much of the focus on Georgia's recent election result has focused on the Russia question. Understandably so, because one of the few things everyone knows about Georgia's new prime minister, Bidzina Ivanishvili, is that he made his vast fortune in Russia.
The Other Failed Peace Process With the flurry of foreign news at the moment, you will be forgiven for missing the statement of Presidents Medvedev, Obama and Sarkozy from the G8 summit Deauville on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. But it is the most serious international declaration on the conflict for many years.
Armenia and Azerbaijan Are at it Again In diplomacy, the moment is everything. This obvious truth struck me again in the run-up to the tenth anniversary of the Key West talks, when the United States made its biggest push to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorny Karabakh- a piece of highland territory in the south Caucasus that the two states have long been fighting over.
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