Author: Fuad Shahbazov

Fuad Shahbazov

Fuad Shahbazov is a policy analyst covering regional security issues in the South Caucasus. He is a former research fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies of Azerbaijan and a former senior analyst at the Center for Strategic Communications, also in Azerbaijan. He has been a visiting scholar at the Daniel Morgan School of National Security in Washington, DC. Currently, he is undertaking an MSc in defense, development and diplomacy at Durham University, UK. He tweets at: @fuadshahbazov.

Iran

Iran and Saudi Arabia in SCO: A Strategic Shift in Gulf Alliances

Geopolitics

On July 4, 2023, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) leaders held a virtual summit focusing...

Iran

Escalation of Water Conflict: Iran and Afghanistan at the Brink

Geopolitics

Rising tensions between Iran and Afghanistan, sparked by territorial and water disputes, are at a...

Iran

China’s Yemen Diplomacy and a Multipolar Gulf

Geopolitics

Since it first emerged as an economic powerhouse in the 1990s and early 2000s, China...

Iran

The Lopsided Iran-China Partnership Presents More Questions than Answers

Geopolitics

On February 14, 2023, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi paid his first official visit to China...

Iran

Iran Cannot Solve its Azerbaijan Problem Through Intimidation

Defense & Security

On January 27, 2023, an unprecedented terrorist attack was carried out against the embassy of...

Iran

Iranian Drones Could Tear the Balkans Apart

Defense & Security

In February 2022, Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine transformed Europe’s traditional security architecture...

Iran

How Far is Israel’s New Government Willing to Go to Counter Iran’s Nucl...

Defense & Security

When the newly-elected Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was sworn in for his sixth...

Iran

Ethnic Minorities in the Iranian Protests: Tehran’s No-Win Situation

Geopolitics

The ongoing mass protests in Iran, which have steadily grown more violent over the past...

Iran

Overconfidence Costs Iran Influence in the South Caucasus

Geopolitics

Amid mass protests gripping its major cities, Iran’s relations with the states in its immediate...

Iran

Tehran Eyes Drone Dominance in its Near-Abroad

Defense & Security

As Russia’s military invasion in Ukraine enters its eighth month, Moscow is steadily losing strategic...

GCC

How Could Turkey-Gulf Relations Transform in a Post-AKP Turkey

Geopolitics

Over the past two years, we have witnessed a significant diplomatic rapprochement between Turkey and...

Iran

An Uneasy Equilibrium: Russia-Iran-Turkey Trilateral Relations

Geopolitics

On July 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to Tehran—his second official...

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