On Aug. 8, the White House hosted the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia as they signed a peace deal. The agreement comes after decades of on-and-off fighting. Nareg Seferian joins the Warcast to walk through key parts of the agreement and regional implications.
Independent researcher Nareg Seferian joined Turkey recap editor-in-chief Diego Cupolo to discuss Armenia-Azerbaijan peace talks and their implications for the region.
They covered the July 10 meeting between Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani Pres. Ilham Aliyev in Abu Dhabi and their efforts to finalize a peace agreement in the aftermath of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The peace talks will not only impact Eurasian energy and trade – through projects like the Zangezur corridor – but could also revive stalled normalization efforts between Turkey and Armenia.
All of the above has repercussions for the balance of power in the South Caucasus, where Russia, Iran, the European Union and the United States compete for influence.
An Azerbaijan Airlines plane that was forced to crash-land in Kazakhstan last month, killing 38, appears to have been hit by Russian air defense systems. Nareg Seferian joins the WarCast to outline the implications for regional security.
On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijani forces initiated a massive attack on Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated and effectively self-governing region inside internationally recognized Azerbaijani territory. Within 24 hours, the Nagorno-Karabakh leadership gave in, and, for the first time, Baku could claim full control over the contested territory. Despite being portrayed in the West as a “frozen conflict,” there had long been a risk of renewed violence in Nagorno-Karabakh. In this episode of Report in Short, Walter Landgraf and Nareg Seferian join Aaron Schwartzbaum to discuss their recent report “A ‘Frozen Conflict’ Boils Over: Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023 and Future Implications.
For the third time in three decades, Ankara and Yerevan are trying to normalize relations. In a region plagued by rivalry, distrust, and historical grievances, this will be no easy feat. In #TOPTALK, Rusif Huseynov discusses the topic with Nareg Seferian, a U.S.-based Armenian scholar, whose expertise covers the Armenia-Turkey ties among others.
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