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...

Painful and uncertain as it is, the wisest course of action to follow in Iraq now is to support our commander-in-chief, soldiers, and civilians.