Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said at the 4th Shusha Global Media Forum on July 13 that Baku is considering full withdrawal from the Council of Europe, whose Parliamentary Assembly suspended Azerbaijan's voting rights in 2024; Aliyev said 'even if Azerbaijan were to leave the Council of Europe entirely, almost no one in the country would notice it,' while also saying Baku wants normalised relations if Europe takes the first step
A 35-year dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh that ended in Azerbaijan's 2023 military takeover, now in a stalled US-brokered peace process as of mid-2026.
full dossier ›Russia-led post-Soviet military alliance of six states formed in 2002 and headquartered in Moscow, losing coherence as Armenia defects and Russia's Ukraine war strains collective commitments.
Eight disputes, from the Taiwan Strait to Serbia-Kosovo, where formal hostilities ended but peace did not, generating the world's most acute escalation risks.
A global pattern where incumbents defer elections through security, legal, or coalition pretexts, blocking peace deals in Armenia and Libya and freezing democratic renewal in Lebanon and Mexico.
A 99-year US development lease over the Zangezur strip moves from framework to implementation, rewiring South Caucasus transit and alarming Tehran and Moscow
Civil Contract takes ~50% on June 7, enough to govern but not the two-thirds for the constitutional referendum Baku and Ankara demand before signing