Conflict and Peace

The Caucasus region has been plunged back into war. From yesterday morning fighting has been taking place between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces across the line of contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.

The EU has some difficult decisions ahead as tensions between Greece, and Türkiye escalate. Noman Ahmed and Maximiliaan van Lange analyse the background to the current stand-off.

Despite being a diplomatic achievement for the Syrian opposition, the Caesar Act offers only painfully narrow opportunities for progress in the peace process in Syria argues Noman Ahmed in this op-ed

In this commentary, Noman Ahmed discusses recent developments in the Sahel and why a new European task force may succeed where others have not

EU should not accept even tacitly a Turkey-Russia hegemonic role in North Africa and the Arab Levant argues Noman Ahmed in this commentary for commonspace.eu

The public debate between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Munich on Saturday was not there to be won or lost, but was itself a confidence-building measure, argues Dennis Sammut in this week's Monday Commentary

Reflecting on new tensions in Russian-Turkish relations Dennis Sammut says that Erdogan is not the first one to discover that the hug of the Russian bear comes with a price. Others, not least in the Caucasus region, are watching as this drama unfolds, and wondering what the consequences may be.