Dr. Benyamin Poghosyan for the European Geopolitical Forum (EGF) Since gaining independence in 1991 Armenia has faced tough challenges in building relations with two of its four neighbors — Azerbaijan and Turkey. Relations with Azerbaijan were mainly influenced by Karabakh conflict. Armenia was supporting Nagorno Karabakh Armenians to defend ...

This week’s Washington is off to a rough start with the government shutdown; however, last week the Trump administration scored a foreign policy diplomatic success with the visit of Nursultan Nazarbayev (77), the long-time leader of Kazakhstan, to the White House. Bordering both China and Russia, Kazakhstan is a key country in the heart of Eurasia,...

Following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the United States, which saw Russia as heir apparent to the Soviet Union, caught Moscow within a passive framework through implementing a well-calculated strategy and building international institutions. This framework, whose fundament was commitment of key actors and regions, including the Middle ...

August 3, 2016 , The recent coup attempt against the Turkish government failed due to a host of factors and reasons, including theoretical and practical weakness of coup plotters, wide support for the ruling Justice and Development Party’s government from people, valiant encounter between people and putschists’ tanks, charismatic figure ...

French newspaper Le Figaro published an article about Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's recent address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. In his speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday, Georgia's President Saakashvili took unilateral responsibility to refuse to using force and offered dialogue without precedent conditions....

The achievement of the financial stability allowed Azerbaijan to become a serious participant in investment projects abroad. Azerbaijan invested $۶ billion in foreign countries from ۲۰۰۳ to ۲۰۱۱. Azerbaijani Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev said that Azerbaijan has become a country exporting investments. The accelerated pace of developing ...

National security is a game of managing risk – pure and simple. During the Cold War, states were the primary target for intelligence; non-state actors, like terrorists, were secondary. As a result, national intelligence services had not digested the implications of the end of the Cold War when the first wave of terrorist attacks struck. In the ...

Billionaire opposition politician, Bidzina Ivanishvili, announced on February ۲۱ about formal launch of his coalition, Georgian Dream, which apart of his planned party also includes Our Georgia-Free Democrats (OGFD), Republican Party and National Forum. Leaders of Conservative Party and People’s Party, Zviad Dzidziguri and Koba Davitashvili, ...

Even though all Turkish government officials routinely deny the Armenian Genocide, one particular minister has turned denial into a full-time job. Ironically, as Minister for European Union Affairs, Egemen Bagis has harmed Turkey’s prospects for EU membership more than any of its critics! Although Bagis has been making zany statements ever since ...