Azerbaijan and the South Caucasus Borderlands

For the U.S., improving ties with Armenia alone will only benefit Moscow and Tehran.

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As Russia is locked in a difficult war in Ukraine, its southern flank – the South Caucasus – is in disarray. There is a new balance of power there now that Azerbaijan has consolidated its victory against Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, and, upset that Russia did not come to its aid, Armenia seems to be reorienting […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari