Caucasus Strategic Perspectives

10/07/2025

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 “Sovereignty, Strategic Choices and Survival in the 21st Century”
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 October 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-2-winter-2025-565

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

10/07/2025

Review of New Issue (7): Onnik James Krikorian's "The Days of the OSCE Minsk Group Were Already Numbered" explores how great-power rivalries, structural deadlock, and shifting post-2020 realities rendered the Minsk Group obsolete—marking the close of a decades-long mediation effort in the South Caucasus

The demise of the OSCE Minsk Group, an internationally mandated effort to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan, ends an era that spanned almost three decades. Cochaired by France, Russia, and the United States, it failed to achieve its goal amid rivalry between the co-chair countries themselves an...

10/07/2025

Review of New Issue (6): Özgür Tüfekçi's "Navigating Multilateralism: Azerbaijan's Energy Diplomacy and Alliance Building" explores how Azerbaijan engages with multilateral bodies—CIS, NAM, OIC, and OTS—using energy diplomacy and regional alliances to promote its national interests and expand its influence in a changing international system

This article sets out to examine how Azerbaijan strategically navigates its engagement within diverse multilateral organizations – namely the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Organisation of Turkic Stat...

10/07/2025

Review of New Issue (5): Konul Shahin's "The Role of International Assistance in Mine Action: The case of Azerbaijan" explores the ongoing challenges Azerbaijan faces in its Garabagh and Eastern Zangezur regions due to the contamination of those territories with landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) by Armenia during the latter’s 30-year-long occupation of the former’s territories

This article explores the ongoing challenges Azerbaijan faces in its Garabagh and Eastern Zangezur regions due to the contamination of those territories with landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) by Armenia during the latter’s 30-year-long occupation of the former’s territories. As one o...

10/07/2025

Review of New Issue (4): Yauheni Preiherman's "Why Do the South Caucasus Countries Still Need Effective Multilateralism?" highlights that South Caucasus countries have every reason to continue relying on multilateralism as a foundation for their foreign and security policy—while also recognizing the added value of regionalism.

09/07/2025

Review of New Issue (3): Hazel Cagan Erbil's "The Failure of the OSCE Minsk Group to Solve Conflicts and Promote Regional Stability in the South Caucasus" examines the Minsk Group’s origins, failures, and the geopolitical factors behind its collapse, arguing its dissolution is key to building a more inclusive and effective peace framework in the South Caucasus

09/07/2025

Review of New Issue (2): M.R. Hess’s “Lessons (To Be) Drawn in 2025: On Pragmatics&Values in the South Caucasus” illustrates some of the dangers that menace both N. Pashinyan’s turnabout&the peace process

09/07/2025

Review of New Issue (1): R.M. Cutler’s “🇫🇷 and the South Caucasus: From the Minsk Group to Militarization of 🇦🇲” explores 🇫🇷’s post-2020 shift — arms transfers, defense pacts, and a move from mediation to open alignment.

09/07/2025

Dear Readers,

The new issue (Volume 6, Issue 1, Summer 2025) of the Journal of Caucasus Strategic Perspectives (CSP) entitled “Multilateralism and Regionalism in the South Caucasus” has been released.
The current issue of the Caucasus Strategic Perspectives (CSP) journal entitled “Multilateralism and Regionalism in the South Caucasus” is dedicated to the different aspects of the multilateral and regional cooperation formats pursued by the states of the South Caucasus region. The CSP’s summer issue also featured off-topic, yet timely-written article covering the relevant developments beyond the South Caucasus region. The CSP’s new issue includes 7 articles and 1 commentary. The CSP’s current authors analyzed France’s role in the Minsk Group framework, France’s post-2020 militarization of Armenia, the geopolitical dynamics that precipitated the Minsk Group’s failure, Armenian leadership’s turnabout in the post-2020 era, the perspective of the multilateralism for the South Caucasian countries, challenges Azerbaijan faces due to the landmine contamination, Azerbaijan’s energy diplomacy and regional alliances, the perspective of the minilateralism, etc.

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%206-Issue%201-Summer%202025%20WEB.pdf

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

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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.