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The Central and Eastern European (CEE) region has been a focal point of China’s foreign policy for the past decade, particularly within the framework of the 16+1 (now 14 after Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia’s withdrawal) initiative. Established in 2012 at the summit in Warsaw presided by the then-Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, the platform was…
One year ago, in a piece titled “Armenian–Azerbaijani rapprochement: Facing a hurdle,” I concluded that Armenia is stuck between myth and reality and has to move from myths related to ‘imagined communities’ defined by kinship and history to new, pragmatic relations with its neighbors, Azerbaijan and Türkiye.[1] Today, despite some sporadic attempts by the Pashinyan…
The “security dilemma” is one of the key concepts in the academic study of international relations and foreign policy. First articulated by John Hertz in 1950 and subsequently analyzed in detail by scholars such as Robert Jervis, Charles Glaeser, and others, the security dilemma describes how actions taken by one state to enhance its security—building…
When a video of former President of Armenia Levon-Ter Petrosyan confessing to ethnic cleansing against non-Armenians in Armenia and the Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan at the congress of the terrorist organization “Yerkrapa” in 1993 was revealed 31 years later, it led to serious debate. Yerkpara was founded by Armenia’s first defense minister,…
On January 31st, 2025, the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center) organized an international conference titled “France and the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.” In his introductory remarks, Chairman of the Board of the AIR Center, Farid Shafiyev, stressed that the cool down in the bilateral relations is solely the responsibility of France. He noted that…
October 2024. Istanbul hosts what is known as the 3+3 regional cooperation platform, more precisely its third edition, albeit at the ministerial level. This format came to life following the 2020 Karabakh War, which not only made de facto territorial changes in South Caucasus for the first time in three decades but also heralded new…
The crash of the Azerbaijani Airlines Flight 8243 on December 25, which took 38 lives from the 67 people onboard has not only shaken the international community and become one of the most widely discussed news at the end of the year. The initial reports and then the proof on the external interference left no room about…
On January 27, 2025, a meeting was held in Minsk between Oleg Makarov, Director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research (BISR), and Zahid Oruj, Chairman of the Board of the Social Research Center (SRC). During the discussions, both parties emphasized their commitment to strengthening expert cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Republic…
Today, on January 24, 2025, a delegation from the Colombian Embassy, led by Andrés Felipe Giraldo López attended and was hosted by Topchubashov Center. During the meeting the two parties discusses the ways of cooperation in humanitarian and social spheres.
During a press conference on January 8, 2025, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, Ararat Mirzoyan, made the following statement: “We have never denied that during the Soviet era, Azerbaijanis lived in Armenia and left the country after the Soviet Union collapsed. Azerbaijanis departed from Armenia in a peaceful and orderly…
