Territorial disputes and border issues in the South Caucasus are the major threat to stability and security in the region. All the international borders became problematic after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It is worth especially noting the border issue between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as two states could not start the process of the delimitation and demarcation of the state border because of the Karabakh conflict.
An often-overlooked element comes from Armenia and its supporters, who exploit the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an attempt to score political points regarding the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Quickly after a Russia-brokered ceasefire agreement was announced last November to end the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, some Russian media printed the text. One of the provisions was that Armenia would, by November 20, “return to the Azerbaijani side the territory held by the Armenian side in the Gazakh region of the Azerbaijani republic.”
All other major American Jewish organizations refused to collaborate with the Armenian lobby and target Azerbaijan. In fact, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s (SWC), a globally acclaimed champion against antisemitism, discrimination
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan spans several decades and led to a war between the two nations at the end of 2020. Roland Benedikter examines whether South Tyrol in northern Italy might offer a viable model for establishing lasting peace in the region.
The last time Armenians went to the polls, in 2018, they were voting optimistically. Following Nikol Pashinyan’s successful toppling of the old regime via street protests, voters gave him an overwhelming
In the city of Dmani, a quarrel has turned into a brawl and struggle between the Christian and Muslim communities. The city is on the road between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The intervention of the Mufti of Eastern Georgia and the representative of the Patriarchate of Georgia was decisive. Inter-ethnic struggles, a legacy of the Soviet past.
When we say "identity", we mean the answers individuals and society as a whole give to the question "Who are you?" and "What are your origins?". Every person is an individual belonging to some family, community, organization, nation and state, regardless of whether that person's sense of belonging is weak or strong. A nation is a union formed by people who speak the same language, have a common past, believe in the same creation myth, and call a certain piece of land their homeland.
The United States should recognize the potential contribution to enhancing regional security of Azerbaijan and Georgia, which would grant them access to greater security cooperation and military assistance.
A note before I start: since I look at the concept of national identity through the prism of the word “nation” here, I will not differentiate between a “nation” and a “people”. Another note: the definition “Azerbaijanis” is used here to refer to this nation in different periods of its history.
Soviet-era maps don’t provide a clear answer to just where the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan lies in the Syunik district which Baku refers to as Zengezur. Instead, a Soviet military map assigns territory to Azerbaijan that a Soviet topographic map says belongs to Armenia.
One of the main reasons behind the current situation in Karabakh is the increase in the number of politically active Armenians in the region north of the Araz two centuries ago, and the decrease in the number of likewise inclined Azerbaijanis there.
The implementation of the trilateral agreement brokered by Russia on the night of November 9-10, 2020, between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues in fits and starts. Most near-term questions have been resolved. How intermediate-term issues turn out depend upon the results of the snap parliamentary elections called in June by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. As for the longer-term outcome, this is more difficult to estimate, and it is path-dependent upon those elections. In this regard, events on the ground—but not only the elections—are still in control, even if these are no longer military events.
For 26 years, the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) worked fruitlessly to bring the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict to a peaceful resolution. Then, in just six weeks, the Second Karabakh War radically altered the conflict and the Minsk Group was shunted aside.
If we don’t start to unravel where this expanding global anti-intellectual, anti-scientific rhetoric comes from, we may find ourselves in a very difficult situation in a time when the world
For Israel, Azerbaijan is a strategically important outpost on the northern flank of archenemy Iran. Politically and economically, Jerusalem and Baku have very close ties. Israel is the second largest purchaser of oil from Azerbaijan, and in return Baku has access to Israeli technology and drones.
"The number of internet users in Azerbaijan is more than 80 percent. Can you imagine the restriction of media in a country where the internet is free, there is no censorship, and there are 80% of internet users?" President Ilham Aliyev tells the BBC journalist.
With Canadian troops deployed in the Baltics and our continued engagement in Ukraine, it is natural that our attention is drawn to that region. The ongoing political drama in Armenia, however, is a valuable parallel that could foreshadow Russia’s endgame for the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
For the first time in a long while, some positive news has emerged regarding Turkey-Israel relations. It seems that years after the Davos and Mavi Marmara incidents, both countries are seeking ways to improve relations with each other.
Azerbaijan is a nation friendly with NATO member Turkey. Since May 4, 1994, Azerbaijan has cooperated with the NATO Partnership for Peace Program. Trend News Agency reported this cooperation as “extremely effective” for the past 27 years and one day since it was established.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan has aligned with other pro-Western former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine, with one major difference: while Georgia and Ukraine have sought NATO membership, Azerbaijan has adopted a multi-vector foreign policy of integration with NATO without seeking to become a member.
In this recent panel on landmines in Karabakh, U.S. defense expert Benjamin Minick noted that the landmines issue was an express violation of human rights. He also said that the manner in which they were planted was intentional. “They wanted to inflict maximum damage.”
Almost 100,000 Jews live in the Muslim world today, spread out across 14 countries on three continents. This figure is far short of the hundreds of thousands of Jews that formerly flourished in the African, Asian and European countries where Islam is dominant.
Representatives of the Jewish ethnic groups living in Azerbaijan, as well as former Azerbaijani citizens who immigrated to Israel and other countries around the world, play an important role in maintaining the high level of relations between the two countries.
