Caucasus

With the sun not yet risen over Armenia, on 10 November I woke at 4 AM to a text from the U.S. Embassy warning “Protests have broken out in downtown Yerevan, with reports of violence.” Groggily, [...]

Over the past two weeks two Georgias have voted, one country and one US state. While the world’s attention has been focused on the results in the US and the refusal of some to accept the election [...]

On the southeastern outskirts of the hilltop city of Shusha, a narrow street lined with the forlorn ruins of old stone houses gives way to an open grassy field. Walking in the direction of a [...]

Migration to the global cities of the Soviet Union plays an important part in the history of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Exploring the narratives of those moving to these global cities, Jeff [...]

In a flareup of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in July 2020, the fighting extended well beyond the South Caucasus. Armenian and Azerbaijani diaspora communities brawled in the [...]

Mohammad Mammadov on how ontological security might be what’s stopping the Armenia and Azerbaijan from reaching a peace agreement.

Augusto Dala Costa on the memory politics imbued in the public naming practices of Georgia's capital.

Louis Train reviews the cookbook Supra: A Feast of Georgian Cooking by Tiko Tuskadze.

Since the early 1990s, an interesting phenomenon has emerged in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus – some states that, despite having their own government and state apparatus, lack [...]

As the number of worldwide coronavirus cases nears two million, experts have not shied away from making predictions about the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the economy and on society, as a [...]