Azerbaijan Is in the Middle East for the Long Haul

The opportunity is there, but its alliances with Turkey and Israel put it in a tough position.

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Azerbaijan’s growing involvement in the areas to its south indicates the natural contiguity of the Middle East and the Caucasus. Now that Russia and Iran have weakened, Baku has an opportunity to emerge as a budding middle power with interests throughout Eurasia. Thanks to its location along the land bridge that connects the Caspian and […]

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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