1. View of Mount Ararat in Turkey from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, November 18, 2004 (Scott LaPierre)

    Accidental War Waiting to Happen on Europe’s Periphery

    The shimmering Nagorno-Karabakh conflict threatens to upset the regional balance of power and cut European oil supplies.

  1. Pipeline construction in the Black Sea (Gazprom)

    Time for Compromise On Trans Caspian Pipeline

    Wikistrat analysts say the time is ripe for an energy deal between Europe and Russia on Caspian Sea exports.

  1. Pakistani men unload supplies delivered by a United States Army Chinook helicopter in Matlatan, Pakistan on September 28, 2010 (Sergeant Jason Bushong)

    No Good Ways Out of Afghanistan

    Air and land routes out of the country are either insufficient or troublesome. Leaving Afghanistan is logistically difficult.

  1. Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Emomalii Rahmon of Tajikistan during a joint press conference, September 4, 2011

    Tajikistan: Between A Rock, A Hard Place And Iran

    As the United States plot their exit from Afghanistan, they’re making efforts to reenlist Central Asian support.

  1. Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, November 15, 2011

    Medvedev Predicts Eurasian Union By 2015

    It may prove a tough sell to non-Russian peoples that they will not be junior partners in orbiting Kremlin interests.