Caucasus Strategic Perspectives

10/02/2025

Dear partners and colleagues,

We are happy to inform you that Caucasus Strategic Perspectives (CSP) recently announced its new call for submissions for summer edition titled “Role and Relevance of Multilateralism for the South Caucasus countries”

CSP is an academic journal on foreign and security policy and is published on a biannually basis by Centre of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center).

Shall there be an intention to contribute, please kindly inform us about your decision at your earliest convenience, also by contacting at this address: [email protected]

The deadline is set for 1 April 2025. The manuscripts can be submitted to the following email in a Microsoft word format: [email protected]

For more information about the CSP’s upcoming issue, please visit https://cspjournal.az/post/call-for-submissions-caucasus-strategic-perspectives-volume-6-issue-1-summer-2025-543

Guideline for authors for your ease: https://cspjournal.az/static/guideline-for-authors-26

08/01/2025

Review of New Issue (8): Rovshan Ibrahimov’s “Azerbaijan as an Emerging Middle Power after the 44-Day War and Reshaping the Foreign Policy” defines the notion of middle power and the specifics of states with such status. Further, the current status of Azerbaijan in regional and international fora is analysed on the basis of the proposed category.

08/01/2025

Review of New Issue (7): Mima Čvorović’s “Ethnic Cleansing in the South Caucasus Throughout the 20th Century: Massacres and Mass Deportations of Azerbaijanis” provides an overview of the key periods in the history of Azerbaijan, that is, 1905–1907, 1918–1920, 1948–1953, and 1988–1993, with a special focus on the violent and forced displacement of Azerbaijanis and the destruction of their cultural heritage.

08/01/2025

Review of New Issue (6): Vasif Huseynov and Aynur Abbassoy’s “Extra-Regional Actors in the South Caucasus: Armenia–India Alignment in the Spotlight” explores the ideological drivers behind the alignment between New Delhi and Yerevan. It concludes that these developments generate reasonable concerns about their potential consequences for peace efforts between the two South Caucasian republics, while also suggesting that India’s strategy in the region could not only affect its relations with Azerbaijan but also risk undermining its broader economic and connectivity interests.

08/01/2025

Review of New Issue (5): Eugene Chausovsky’s “Azerbaijan and Armenia: How Energy Connectivity is Critical to Peace” explains the importance of energy connectivity in shaping the relationship between Azerbaijan and Armenia across the economic, diplomatic, and security spheres — from the Soviet period to the present day and into the future.

This article sets out to examine the importance of energy connectivity in shaping the relationship between Azerbaijan and Armenia across the economic, diplomatic and security spheres – from the Soviet period, to the present day, to the future. The article explains how energy and infrastructure con...

08/01/2025

Review of New Issue (4): Aytac Mahammadova’s “The Increasing Role of Regional Organizations in the Climate Agenda of Central Asia: Challenges and Possible Implications” examines the structural and political challenges impeding the efficacy of Central Asian regional organizations in addressing climate change.

08/01/2025

Review of New Issue (3): Nina Miholjčić Ivković’s “Managing Interrelated Environmental Challenges in Central Asia and the South Caucasus through Regional Collaboration” analyses how regional collaboration among Central Asian and South Caucasus countries can effectively address the interrelated environmental challenges of water scarcity, climate change, and energy dependence.

08/01/2025

Review of New Issue (2): Robert M. Cutler’s “How Azerbaijan Advances South Caucasus–Central Asian Integration Through the Middle Corridor” evaluates how Azerbaijan’s foreign policy, balancing with multiple partners, allows it to consolidate its middle-power status, and also reflects on the country’s broader impact on East–West trade and connectivity in the evolving global order.

This article examines the evolving geoeconomic significance of the South Caucasus and Central Asia, with a particular focus on Azerbaijan’s emergence as a pivotal actor in the region. It begins by tracing the historical trajectory of the West’s interest in these regions, highlighting its recentl...

08/01/2025

Review of New Issue (1): Farid Shafiyev and Roza Bayramli’s “Azerbaijan’s Asian Perspective: Security and Cooperation” examines, how geopolitical tensions among global powers are exacerbating security and economic issues worldwide, challenging the post-Cold War international order, and exposing the shortcomings of international law.

26/12/2024

Dear Readers,

The new issue (Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 2024) of the Journal of Caucasus Strategic Perspectives (CSP) entitled “Reinforcing the bonds between South Caucasus and Central Asia” has been released.

The current issue of the Caucasus Strategic Perspectives (CSP) journal entitled “Reinforcing the bonds between South Caucasus and Central Asia” is dedicated to the different aspects of the cooperation between two regions from connectivity, environment and climate issues to energy policy. The CSP journal also featured off-topic, yet timely written articles covering the current and relevant developments in the South Caucasus region. The CSP’s new issue includes 7 articles and 1 commentary.

The free PDF articles from the issue can be downloaded at the CSP's website via the following link: https://cspjournal.az/new-issue

The full version of the Journal can be accessed here:https://cspjournal.az/uploads/files/CSP_Volume%205%2C%20Issue%201%20Winter%202024%20WEB.pdf

For the previous issues please see the archive: https://cspjournal.az/archive

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25/10/2024

Dear partners and colleagues,

We are happy to inform you that Caucasus Strategic Perspectives (CSP) recently announced its new call for submissions for winter edition titled “Reinforcing the bonds between South Caucasus and Central Asia”

CSP is an academic journal on foreign and security policy and is published on a biannually basis by Centre of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center).

Shall there be an intention to contribute, please kindly inform us about your decision at your earliest convenience, also by contacting at this address: [email protected]

The deadline is set for 15 November 2024. The manuscripts can be submitted to the following email in a Microsoft word format: [email protected]

For more information about the CSP’s upcoming issue, please visit https://cspjournal.az/post/call-for-submissions-caucasus-strategic-perspectives-volume-5-issue-2-winter-2024-528

Guideline for authors for your ease: https://cspjournal.az/static/guideline-for-authors-26