Since regaining of the independence in 1991, Armenia faced with the challenging task of formulating its own foreign policy and military doctrine that will correspond to its national security interests. Given the importance ...

This Master’s Essay examines Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East under the Justice and Development Party (JDP) from the years 2002-2011 and how a new assertiveness in the country’s foreign policy is helping it ...

This paper aims to explore the role of Iraqi Kurdistan on emerging Kurdish nationhood in Turkey, Iran and Syria. Being the largest non-state nation, the Kurds are split between Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey creating challenges ...

The Master’s Essay has a purpose to illustrate Iranian-Armenian foreign relations since independence of Armenia. Armenia-Iran relations were affected by different factors. Some of them were in favor for Armenian-Iranian ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of new communication routes in developing security trends in the South Caucasus with a special emphasis on the reasons of Armenia’s dropping out from these geopolitically ...