The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

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In this episode of Baker's Dozen, host Rodger Baker speaks with Lasha Kasradze, a Eurasia analyst who specializes in the Caucasus about Georgia and the tentative geopolitical situation of the Greater Caucasus, where great powers and lesser powers have been jockeying for position.

Despite widespread outrage over the terms of last year’s peace deal with Azerbaijan, Armenia's intensifying political crisis is unlikely to spark a resumption of war.

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor Vice President of Strategic Analysis Rodger Baker speaks to Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili about her visit to Brussels to discuss progress on Georgia's inclusion in the EU and NATO.

With Armenia focused on domestic threats and Azerbaijan wary of Russian retaliation, keeping the peace in Nagorno-Karabakh is currently everyone’s interest.

Armenia’s intensifying political crisis and the still-volatile situation in Nagorno-Karabakh leave the door open for future rounds of violence.

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Rodger Baker, senior vice president of strategic analysis for Stratfor and RANE, looks deeper at the concept of "squeezed states" with Dr. Zurab Khonelidze, the rector of Sokhumi State University, located in the South Caucasus nation of Georgia.

While it could spur a new cycle of elevated conflict, the recent military escalation is unlikely to alter the established dynamics of Armenia and Azerbaijan's decades-old conflict.

Moscow and Yerevan are age-old allies, but a recent frosty turn in their relationship could open the door for other powers to strengthen their ties with Armenia.

U.S. national security adviser John Bolton is visiting the region with an eye to obtaining regional support for the United States' moves against Moscow and Tehran.