by Rustam Taghizade On 23 April 2025, in a landmark ceremony in Baku, Azerbaijan and China transformed their bilateral ties into a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, signing twenty accords under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). While the agreements spanned legal harmonization, green-development targets, digital-economy frameworks and aerospace collaboration, the true significance lay in Baku’s strategic […]
by Tural Rzayev The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, is on a working visit to Türkiye to attend the 4th Antalya Diplomacy Forum at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. As part of this visit, the head of state has already held a number of important meetings. One particularly noteworthy event […]
by Damir Zaidullayev On November 28, 2024, Astana is hosting a key session of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) statutory bodies, marking the conclusion of Kazakhstan’s chairmanship of the organization. This pivotal meeting reflects on a year of dedicated efforts by Kazakhstan to strengthen regional security, enhance the operational readiness of the Collective Forces, […]
by Rustam Taghizade The ongoing political situation in the Middle East is currently entering a more tense phase. Iran, a garrison state, aspires to leverage its regional influence to launch further attacks against Israel through proxy forces, while simultaneously maintaining a state of conflict with the Jewish state. It is the deployment of proxy forces […]
Interview with Mark Pohlmann, Founder & CEO at Aeteos Questions: 1. Please tell us a little about yourself and your professional involvement in cybersecurity. I’m the CEO of Aeteos, a French Company. At Aeteos, since 2016, we have done Cognitive Computing. We have created an award-winning natural language understanding technology, called Percipion, which we have […]
by Talgat Kabdygali The United States is strategically utilizing the “water card” in Central Asian nations as part of its “Global Water Strategy for 2022-2027”. The latter, also called “Global Water Strategy,” aimed at principles of equitable and reasonable use and sustainable supplies of water across the region of Central Asia. Moreover, more than $1b […]
by Rustam Taghizade Israel and Hezbollah. The influence of political processes in the Middle East on the South Caucasus In excess of nine months after the conclusion of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the prospect of a second, potentially larger conflict with Hezbollah on the northern border has emerged as […]
By Rustam Taghizade The meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Almaty, Kazakhstan, has come to an end. I would like to mention the role of the city of Almaty. Almaty is strengthening its image as a place for dialogue and the resolution of international conflicts, as demonstrated by the negotiations on […]
by Dr. Ioannis E. Kotoulas Russia and China are two revisionist states that have employed various modes of subversion against their neighbors, ranging from open threats and economic warfare to full-scale invasion. The states of Eastern Europe and Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean are witnesses to this. In essence, we already witness the gradual emergence […]
The Washington Outsider’s Editor-in-Chief Irina Tsukerman co-wrote an article with Southfive Strategies’ President Jason Epstein in Newsweek. One of us is a human rights attorney stridently opposed to Turkish foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and elsewhere; the other is a public affairs consultant who strongly believes Turkey is a key pillar in America’s ongoing […]