Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the start of the Russian war in Ukraine, the military movements of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Karabakh were not beyond expectation.
Mehdi Khorsand – Expert in Eurasia affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In the contemporary world, many and serious changes are taking place in the players and effective variables, resources and control methods in the field of international politics; but for the Europeans, limited access to diverse energy resources, as well as problems with safe and cheap access to resources such as gas, especially after it became clear that the tool could be used as a political lever, has made energy resources and their transfer lines into a very important and vital factor in the field of international politics and international security. In this regard, recent developments in oil and gas exporting countries have increased the importance of the issue.
Mehdi Khorsand – Expert on Eurasia affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With regard to Russia’s active role playing in the 2020 dispute between Baku and Yerevan over Karabakh, European mediation in this case is an important point that needs to be carefully considered.
Mehdi Khorsand – Expert on China and Eurasia affairs
Strategic council Online – Opinion: Tension between Ukraine and Russia can be interpreted and evaluated in line with mega scale analyses of international transition period. Russia under Putin, and in line with Neo-Euro Asianism Strategy which was theorized for the country by Aleksandr Dugin, tried to consider Post-Soviet Independent Countries as “Near Abroad” and to take action with a suspicious look towards the West, to make effort to confront and to reduce the influence of the West in security structures of the region.
Mehid Khoorsand, Expert on China and Euro-Asia
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Withdrawal from Treaty on Open Skies has placed Washington on the path towards a dangerous competition and increases the probability of a nuclear clash too.
Mehdi Khoorsand, Expert on Caucasus Affairs