Joint panel co-organized by AIR Center and GLOBSEC2024 was held in Prague

A panel titled “COP 29 and Green Horizons: Navigating Climate Change” was organized by the AIR Center in partnership with GLOBSEC 2024 in Prague. Moderated by Sofiia Shevchuk, the founder of the VONA & The Tide and GLOBSEC Young Leader 2024, the panel highlighted the importance of urgent actions against climate fluctuations and the inevitability of regional…

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AIR Center became an institutional partner of the GLOBSEC2024

The delegation of the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center) attends GLOBSEC 2024, which is held in Prague, the Czech Republic’s capital. Chairman of the Board Farid Shafiyev addressed the side session on “Forging Closer Ties: Balancing Trade, Development, and Energy Security Relations with EU Partners” held within the framework of the forum…

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The Urgency of Now: How Armenia and Azerbaijan can’t afford to wait

Since 2020, the peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have faced persistent challenges, with various mediation efforts—spanning Washington, Brussels, and Moscow, which have all collapsed by mid-2023. In fact, there is a deeper crisis in the peace process: despite attempts at bilateral talks and suggestions for Georgia to step in as a regional mediator, as…

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Deepening ties between Türkiye and China: Türkiye’s volume of trade increasing

A series of high-profile visits by Turkish officials to China signals a positive trend in increasing diplomatic interaction and shared interests between China and Türkiye. The recent developments in economic engagement and a growing common ground in the international arena are creating new opportunities for both countries to comprehensively boost their relations. BYD’s investments in…

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Electricity Grids, Smart Grids, and Micro Grids Implications for Electricity Security in Azerbaijan Beyond COP29

Policymakers around the world continue experimenting with different approaches to produce more renewable power in an attempt to achieve their obligations within the framework of the UNFCCC. On the one hand, wind and solar energy projects are on the agendas of numerous governments worldwide. On the other hand, producing renewable energy requires developing electricity infrastructure…

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Azerbaijan-Jordan: recent developments and future cooperation to curb the Shia Crescent

Shia Crescent goes “Full Moon” post-October 7 During the Global War on Terror in the early 2000s, King Abdullah II of Jordan coined the term “Shia Crescent” to describe the Iranian grand strategy of large-scale and wide-ranging ideological armed struggle to create a Shiite empire from Tehran to Damascus. There is no other way to…

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Karabakh after war: Mapping post-conflict reconstruction

In the summer of 2022, Azerbaijan began resettling its first village in Karabakh*, a region in its southwest that had been under Armenian control for about 30 years and was partially recaptured during the 2020 war. Since a war in the 1990s, the predominantly Armenian-populated mountainous parts of Karabakh, as well as seven Azerbaijani-majority districts…

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Beijing Revives China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan Railway

On June 6, the heads of state from China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan approved a trilateral pact to transform an oft-discussed railway from a vision into a reality. According to the agreement, construction of the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan (CKU) railway is expected to commence in October (Xinhua, June 6). Based on a memorandum signed in May 2023, it…

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