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Published in: HomeAzerbaijan: a dual offensiveAzerbaijan’s strategy over the disputed, Armenian-held territory of Karabakh is also aimed at eliminating domestic...
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Published in: HomeAn Armenian perspective on Khojali
Many civilians were killed in the war between the newly independent states of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia and migration: a policy trap
Europe's politics of migration control are being exported to Georgia with potentially dangerous results, says Gavin Slade.
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Published in: oDRAbkhazia: recognising the ruinsThe conflict in Abkhazia has devastated the landscape. Tourism could be encouraged by restoring some of the old...
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Published in: HomeArmenia's election message
A flawed presidential vote that confirms the incumbent in power also exposes anew the dysfunction of democracy in...
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Published in: HomeBidzina Ivanishvili and the new-old Georgia
The election victory of Bidzina Ivanishvili has reconfigured Georgia's political landscape, dominated by Mikheil...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia's election: lesson and prospect
The first constitutional transfer of power in Tbilisi has implications for an assessment of the immediate past as...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: from roses to ashes
The eve of an election is usually a moment to predict which side might win. But as interesting with regard to...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: politics of punishment
Behind Georgia's prison-abuse scandal lies a large-scale, self-funding penal system whose effects - not least...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia's prisons: roots of scandal
The exposure of violent abuse in the Georgian prison system has shocked its people and rocked the government of...
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Published in: oDRThe shepherds of SevukhThe Avars are an ancient people living in the mountains of Dagestan (North Caucasus). Many of them are shepherds....
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Published in: oDRDoes Abkhazia need a foreign policy makeover?Abkhazia's limited international recognition has so far only made it more dependent on Russia. Sufian Zhemukhov...
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Published in: oDRNatalya Estemirova – murdered, not forgottenThree years ago the indomitable Natalya Estemirova was murdered in Chechnya. Her killers remain at large, and...
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Published in: HomeAbkhazia, from conflict to statehood
A bitter post-Soviet war in 1992-93 saw the Black Sea territory of Abkhazia resist invasion from Georgia and...
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Published in: HomeTurkey and the Armenians: politics of history
A new generation's encounter with the Armenian genocide of 1915 is producing fresh understandings of Turkey's - and...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy in Abkhazia: a testing year
An eventful political period in the Black Sea republic of Abkhazia that began in 2011 with the premature death of...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: the next evolution
The direction of Georgia's domestic politics and international orientation has been much disputed since the "rose...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: from diplomacy to politics
A veteran Georgian diplomat has chosen to enter his country's disputatious political arena. A hard decision that had...
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Published in: HomeArmenia-Turkey: the end of rapprochement
A diplomatic process designed to normalise relations between Armenia and Turkey led to the signing of two protocols...
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Published in: HomeEurope’s Armenian policy: the cost of indulgence
The story of a powerful and ambitious Armenian oligarch is also a case-study in the flaws of European Union policy...
