The first oil from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is due to arrive in Ceyhan, Turkey, at the end of October, just days ahead of Azerbaijan’s November 6 parliamentary elections. This nexus of events has raised many questions about the potential for political reform in Azerbaijan; the BTC could shift...

There are echoes of history in the Beijing Olympics and the Russian invasion of Georgia.

Mikhail Saakashvili, president of Georgia, speaks about his country's recent successes and global strategic position.

We must reduce the chance of broader conflict in the Caucasus.

At least for now, the smoke seems to be clearing from the Georgian battlefield. But the extent of the wreckage reaches far beyond that small country.

While the relationship between Israel and Azerbaijan has blossomed, it is not clear how far Azerbaijani elites are willing to pursue ties; it is in Washington's interest to help cement it.

Over the last decade, Washington has given progressively more priority to counterterrorism and antiproliferation and progressively less priority to energy security and to assisting U.S. oil companies.

To the Turks, a fault-line exists not among religions, but instead between democracy, modernity, and reformism on the one side, andtotalitarianism, fundamentalism and lethargy, on the other.