On January 31st, 2012, the 46-day long State of Emergency was finally lifted from the city of Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, ending the country’s most dramatic post-Soviet crisis. What transpired and how the [ … ]

The international community, following the September 11, 2001 events and the subsequent outbreak of war in Afghanistan “rediscovered” the strategic importance of the Central Asian region. Germany was [ … ]

COMMENTARY - The truism that the Middle East is going through a time of upheaval is, for once, true. The Arab Spring, the US withdrawal from Iraq, the stand-off between Iran and the West, and the rise [ … ]

COMMENTARY - In January 2012, Ambassador Matthew Bryza left Baku and returned to Washington following the U.S. Senate’s decision to go to recess without voting on his appointment. This decision please [ … ]

This article has been written in response to the recent new guidelines adopted by the 46 member Nuclear Supplier Groups (NSGs) about the export of sensitive nuclear technology to non-signatory of Nucl [ … ]

As the restive crowds sweep away long standing authoritarian regimes throughout the Middle East, the world is witnessing the manifestation of power of the “voiceless” and disenfranchised. The wave o [ … ]

The electoral revolutions that swept through former communist states in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space in the late 1990s and early 2000s initially provoked great optimism regarding the democ [ … ]

Today migrations are in the heart of political, economic and social transformations of many societies. Indeed, the globalization characterized by the internalization and obliterating of borders is not [ … ]