The South Caucasus has long been a theatre of Turkish and Iranian cooperation and rivalry. While these two regional … rest of Karabakh in the latest military strikes on 19 September 2023 makes a peace accord between Azerbaijan and Armenia … more likely, furthering Turkey’s interests, and potentially limiting Russia’s role in the region. However, the prospect of …

Connectivity, especially in the transport sector, has become a ubiquitous issue in the South Caucasus in recent years …

Among the many significant geopolitical consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine has been the reinvigoration of the … Middle Corridor, both as a regional economic zone comprising Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Turkey but also as an … increasingly attrac­tive alternative route between Europe and China. Russia’s war has disrupted overland connectivity via the New …

Moscow in 2008. The high losses of the country’s armed forces in Ukraine limit Russia’s military power projection …

actors such as Russia, China and Turkey. Within the WB6, the two "outliers" of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Republika … Srpska use their for­eign and security relations with Russia to achieve their own political goals. While Serbia seeks support …

Direct negotiations on a ceasefire in Russia's war against Ukraine broke down within just a few months. Today, Moscow …. Russia’s war diplomacy aims to weaken the "collective West" at the global level as part of its strategy to bring external … support for Ukraine to a halt. Ukraine is seeking to isolate Russia internationally. Meanwhile, Russia’s illegal war of …

for a new round of compulsory mobilisation. However, Russia is not only recruiting for the war against Ukraine; the plan …

Russia wants to realise a high degree of self-regulated stability in the Arctic. Moscow considers this necessary for … well as neighbouring countries and NATO consider these efforts a threat. Russia takes a defensive attitude in the Arctic …, but it is prepared for rapid escalation in the event of confrontation. Russia's Arctic policy is a part of its strategy …