Georgia's Last Direct Presidential Elections
By Natalia Konarzewska January 16, 2019, the CACI Analyst On November 28, 2018, Georgians elected their next president in the second round, in the last direct presidential elections before the country...
View ArticleGeorgian Politics: Awaiting Revitalization
By Neil Hauer March 13, 2019, the CACI Analyst Georgia’s final presidential elections in October and November 2018 served as a microcosm of the current uninspired state of Georgian politics. Although...
View ArticleWhy Washington Must Re-Engage the Caucasus
By Stephen Blank July 8, 2019, the CACI Analyst In late 2018, National Security Council Director John Bolton signaled a revived U.S. interest in the South Caucasus by visiting all three states of the...
View ArticleIndia Wins Defense Deal with Armenia
By Fuad Shahbazov June 1, 2020, the CACI Analyst On March 1, 2020, India outperformed Russia and Poland in a US$ 40 million defense deal with Armenia to supply it with four domestically made SWATHI...
View ArticleA Steadily Tightening Embrace: China’s Ascent in Central Asia and the Caucasus
A Steadily Tightening Embrace: China’s Ascent in Central Asia and the Caucasus By: Raffaello Pantucci Chinese engagement with Central Asia and the Caucasus has been on a steady ascent.China accords...
View ArticleRussian Strategy Towards the Caucasus and Central Asia: a Dominant Power on...
Russian Strategy towards the Caucasus and Central Asia: A Dominant Power on Defense? By: Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. In the thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has sought...
View ArticleIran’s policy toward the Caucasus and Central Asia
By Brenda Shaffer August 17, 2022 Much of the analysis on Iranian foreign policy focuses on both Iran’s positonality in relation to the Middle East, and its claim to the mantle of Shia Islamic...
View ArticleRussia's Weakened Influence in Central Asia and the Caucasus
By Alexander Yeo and Emil Souleimanov July 6, 2023 Russia has long been a regional hegemon, able to actively exert hard and soft power over many of its neighbors, the Central Asian and South Caucasian...
View ArticleIs it America’s Hour in the Caucasus?
By Stephen Blank July 10, 2023 On May 4 Secretary of State Blinken announced that the negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan had made progress and that an agreement that would terminate the...
View ArticleA New Spring for Caspian Transit and Trade
Svante E. Cornell and Brenda Shaffer October 17, 2023 Major recent shifts, starting with the Taliban victory in Afghanistan and Russia’s war in Ukraine have led to a resurgence of the Trans-Caspian...
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