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(Pakistan) The Jihadists’ War in Pakistan after the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Lessons from Al-Qaeda’s Assassination of Benazir Bhutto (Abdul Sayed, The Jamestown Foundation)

The changing narratives and operations of al-Qaeda and its Pakistani ally, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in recent years indicate that the anti-state jihadist war in...

Uncategorized January 30, 2021

(Belarus/Russia) The Belarus Factor in Kaliningrad’s Security Lifeline to Russia (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, security ties between the Republic of Belarus and Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast exclave remain linked in...

Uncategorized January 30, 2021

(Uzbekistan) Year 2020 in Review: Uzbekistan Grapples With Pandemic, Disasters, Russian Pressure (Fozil Mashrab, The Jamestown Foundation)

The fourth year of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev rule proved his most difficult yet, not only because of the COVID-19 pandemic but also due to...

Uncategorized January 29, 2021

(Minsk Group) Can the Minsk Group on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Reinvent Itself? (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The 44-day Second Karabakh War between Armenia and Azerbaijan, its Russian-mediated outcome, the launch of Russia’s own peacekeeping operation, and Turkey’s rise as a...

Uncategorized January 29, 2021

(Russia) Moscow Adopting East India Company Strategy to Develop Russian Far East (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

When analysts consider Vladimir Putin’s strategy for running the regions of the Russian Federation, they generally focus on his supra-regional “innovations.” https://jamestown.org/program/moscow-adopting-east-india-company-strategy-to-develop-russian-far-east/

Uncategorized January 29, 2021

(Russia/New START) Kremlin Pleased With Swift Extension of New START (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

United States President Joseph Biden jolted the political-military leadership in Moscow with his eleventh-hour prolongation of the New START strategic nuclear arms control treaty...

Uncategorized January 29, 2021

(Russia) Chief of General Staff Gerasimov Takes Over Russia’s Academy of Military Sciences: What to Expect From Russian Planning for Future Warfare? (Roger McDermott,...

Army General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s General Staff (CGS) and first deputy defense minister, has been chosen as the new president of...

Uncategorized January 28, 2021

(Belarus) Strategic Thinking and a Fight for Belarusian Democracy (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

“Remember, I said a year ago that perhaps a time will come when Putin and I will have to stand next to...

Uncategorized January 28, 2021

(Azerbaijan/Turkmenistan) Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan Seek to Expand Cooperation on Caspian Energy Production (Rauf Mammadov, The Jamestown Foundation)

A 30-year feud over an offshore oil field located between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea has finally come to an end. In...

Uncategorized January 28, 2021

(Kazakhstan) Year 2020 in Review: Kazakhstan Struggling With Structural Reform Amid COVID-19 Crisis (George Voloshin, The Jamestown Foundation)

As in much of the rest of the world, the year 2020 in Kazakhstan was dominated by the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, which...

Uncategorized January 27, 2021

(Arctic) New Undersea Cables Could Become a Flashpoint in the Arctic (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russian efforts to control the Northern Sea Route and to secure exclusive access to the local seabed, from which it hopes to pump oil...

Uncategorized January 27, 2021

(Russia/Karabakh) Russian ‘Peacekeeping’ in Karabakh: Old Model, New Features, Mission Creep (Part Three) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh was the only Soviet-legacy conflict that did not feature Russian “peacekeeping” troops during the 26-year period between the first...

Uncategorized January 27, 2021

(Nakhchivan Corridor/Georgia/Iran) Nakhchivan Corridor: Implications for Georgia and Iran (Rahim Rahimov, The Jamestown Foundation)

The January 11 trilateral meeting, in Moscow, of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev focused on...

Uncategorized January 26, 2021

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