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SOME ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY AND POLITICAL SITUATION ROUND THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
http://noravank.am/eng/articles/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=6633
02.08.2012
Sergei Sargsyan
Deputy Head of the Center for Political Studies,
“Noravank” Foundation; Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.)
Currently military and political situation round Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict is mainly characterized by a general influence of the
following factors:
- Combat readiness and fighting capacity of the armed forces of the
conflicting parties, sustaining of the acceptable balance of
offensive/defensive arms between them;
- Availability of a sufficient level of mobilization resources,
including Diaspora potential by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan;
- Military and technical, military and political cooperation of
Armenia and Azerbaijan with neighboring states; their direct
involvement in military and political blocks;
- Tendency of development and availability\absence of threats to the
domestic political situation in all three states;
- Level of interest in the conflict on behalf of the regional and
global powers;
- Dynamics and efficiency of the negotiations process;
- Condition and dynamics of economic development of Armenia, NKR and
Azerbaijan;
- Development of military and political situation in the Black Sea,
Caspian and Middle East regions in general.
Amid the situation when a process of accumulation of an experience of
appearance of new states - from East Timor and Kosovo to Abkhazia,
South Ossetia, Eritrea and South Sudan - with different levels of
recognition, the Armenian sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are
sure that Azerbaijan will not manage to attain its separate
advantages, and that time is not on Azerbaijan’s side either.
This is also proved by drastic changes in the attitude towards NKC of
a wide range of international organizations which previously gave
absolute preference to the principle of a territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan and did not go into judicial details of appearance of
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which proceeded in compliance with the
existing laws in the period of collapse of the USSR.
Such a tendency is among other factors which are conditioned by the
dynamics of the development of domestic political situation in
Azerbaijan which is on the one hand characterized by the public
discontent by the authoritarian state control methods and on the
other hand by the intensification of the process of Islamization of
the society.
The latter factor make Azerbaijan more vulnerable to the influence of
the “wave of revolutions” coming from the Muslim
countries of Africa and Middle East, because these states, under the
availability of definite social and cultural, ethnic-national,
social-economic and public and political differences, are united by
the practice of using the mobilization potential of the so-called
“Muslim street” - most socially unprotected part of the
population which is more exposed to the reception of the Islamist
propaganda as an alternative to the ideology of the ruling regime.
The current interests of the key actors of the global politics, which
are in variance to a large extent, due to a number of reasons
objectively promote non-admission of initiating a force solution of
the conflict by Azerbaijan.
For the EU Azerbaijan is of some interest first of all as a source of
energy carriers which can be alternative to the Russian, and as a
corridor for gas and oil supply from the countries of Central Asia
by-passing the territory of Russia. Its role has become even more
important against the background of increasing instability in the
countries of North Africa and Middle East and especially in the
context of developments round Iran which was manifested in the form
of imposing and gradual strengthening of economic and political
sanctions, not to speak of a possibility of carrying out military
operation against the Islamic Republic.
The interest of the United States (and Israel) is supplemented by
assigning a minor but important role to Azerbaijan in case of
carrying out military operation against Iran.
Russia is interested in close partner relations with Azerbaijan first
of all in the context of mutually advantageous cooperation on the
Caspian Sea, not-allowing the warships of non-Caspian states in its
water zone, as well as prolonging the lease agreement of
“Daryal” Information-analytical center (phased-array
early warning radar) dislocated near the population center of Gabala,
which expires in 2012 (it is rather of military and political than
military and technical interest).
But the prospects of such economic cooperation with the EU and
military cooperation with the USA and Russia, directly depends on
preservation of at least relative stability in the zone of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, maintaining of current status-quo and
continuation of negotiation process within the framework of the OSCE
Minks Group, which has been stated for many times on different levels
and from different political grounds. It means that it depends on an
absolute exclusion of military and political risks connected with
escalation of the military actions in the zone of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Consequently, resumption of military actions by Azerbaijan may be
initiated exclusively under the influence of growing threatening
tendencies of the development of domestic political situation in the
country, prospects of loosing a control over the country by the
political elite of the Azerbaijani Republic and fear for their
political, and may be even physical survival.
It should be mentioned here that the scenario of escalation of
tension in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be triggered
only by Azerbaijani party as resumption of military actions by
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic:
- firstly, will bring to the loss of a whole political and diplomatic
groundwork and all the achievements of the Armenian diplomacy for
recent 20 years on explanation, prospects and historical background
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict;
- secondly, is irrational from the military and political viewpoints.
There is no practical sense in changing current and established
configuration of a confrontation line by the Armenian parties - today
it is the most optimal for the minimization of the defense expenses -
mobilization and technical. The balance of strength today is mainly
provided due to the modern and consistent engineering infrastructure
of deep layer in depth defense. Going beyond this line will cause
undesirable and may be even catastrophic for Armenia and NKR
rebalancing in favour of Azerbaijan.
- thirdly, it differs drastically from the purpose of Yerevan and
Stepanakert to obtain recognition of the independence of the NKR
through a wide democratization of authorities and society, which sets
the NKR apart from Azerbaijan with its tendency to strengthen
authoritarian methods of control.
- fourthly, resumption of military actions by Armenian parties will
put a pressure on the economies of the Republic of Armenia and NKR,
bring to a breakdown of social and economic and moral and
psychological condition of the population. In order not to allow
resulting of this situation in uncontrollable political processes,
very forcible arguments of resumption of war should be presented;
objective and real goals and tasks should be set, meanwhile today
there are no such goals, tasks and motivation.
Real distribution of political forces in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, free functioning of oppositional parties and movements,
democratic way of transition of authority by means of elections (in
contrast to dynastic moves, like in Azerbaijan), does not threaten
domestic destabilization, create necessity of artificial shift of the
attention of the Armenian society to the situation in the conflict
zone or demand an occasion for strengthening of the control over the
public and political life in the country under the precise of
“being at war”.
Besides, the Azerbaijani authorities need softening of the critics -
on behalf of both nominal secular opposition and real gaining in
weight Islamic or Islamist opposition - of their actions taken in the
direction of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution by any means -
both diplomatic and military - concerning not keeping their promises
and factual useless embezzlement/spending of budget funds directed to
the strengthening of the force structures of the state.
Absence of any tangible results from the armaments race carried out
for many years, sounding of numerous threats of using the armed
forces for returning “20% of occupied territories”,
without substantiating it by real strengthening of combating activity
in the conflict zone, is considered by opposition as a direct
indicator of non-efficiency of the incumbent authorities, large-scale
plundering of the military budget on the state level and
strengthening of the security agencies only for the reason of
self-preservation of a ruling elite.
At the same time escalation of tension in the conflict zone against
the background of a continuing race of armaments, supplemented by the
policy of promising a military revenge and enrooting of the image of
the enemy-Armenian, is dangerous because very soon it may come out of
control and spin up autonomously.
According to the statement of the Minister of Defence of
Nagorno-Karabakh Movses Hakobyan, Azerbaijani side mounts tension at
the front line year after year: in the first six months of this year
the number of cease fire regime violation cases by Azerbaijan has
doubled as compared to the same period of last year and the number of
diversions has quadrupled. In the first six months of the last year
enemy arranged two diversions and this year four diversions have been
registered1.
Such provocations tend to obtain some military and political goals
for both domestic and foreign political purposes, such as:
- exposure of
* a level of battle readiness and combat effectiveness of the units
of the Armed Forces of the NKR and Republic of Armenia;
* system of defence of the Army of Defence of the NKR, mode of the
protection of the state frontier of the RA; density of firepower
at lines of engineering facilities;
* tactics and operational flexibility of the units of the Army of
Defence of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armed Forces of the RA;
- writing off non-combat losses among the personnel of the armed
forces of Azerbaijan for the sporadic minor actions and mutual
exchange of fire;
- presenting such combat activities to the Azerbaijani society as an
indicator of military build-up and justification of mismatch of the
stated rates of the economic growth of Azerbaijan with the real
improvement of the social and economic condition of broad layers of
population;
- sustaining in the society of Azerbaijan a psychological
“state of war”- revanchist organizations and individual
activists state about the reduction of its level among the modern
Azerbaijani youth;
- justification of authoritarianism in domestic policy, restriction
of the activity of the public and political, human rights
organizations, freedom of expression as well as their possible
stiffening in the future;
- attraction/retention of the attention of the international
community at the issue of pendency of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
At the same time the ruling elite in Azerbaijan should realize that
the escalation of the military situation in the zone of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict plays into hand of the Islamic and Islamist
opposition, because, first of all almost any scenario of development
of the military actions, excluding a “Blitzkrieg”, will
affect the stability of the ruling regime, and secondly, it will
become a convenient occasion to turn for help to the Islamic
countries, receiving financial support from them (in some cases
bypassing official state structures) as well as recruitment for
military actions human resources, which mostly adhere Islamist
ideology and proved their mobility during the events in Libya and
Syria in 2011-20122.
The appeals of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan to declare martial law
in the country and declare jihad3 prove that the Islamist opposition
in Azerbaijan has stirred up for recent years; in August it
established the “Organization of Karabakh Resistance”4,
which acts alongside with “secular” organizations of the
same kind, and the most active and odious among them is the
“Organization of Liberation of Karabakh”.
Increase in number of the revanchist statements by the
representatives of the Azerbaijani authorities, threats to withdraw
from the negotiations process which is held through the intermediary
of the OSCE Minsk group and to solve the conflict by military means
caused the correction of the mode of military and technical
cooperation not only with Azerbaijan but with Armenia either. Despite
the concern expressed by Baku regarding fomenting tension in
Azerbaijani-Iranian relations and using it as a pretext for strike
heavy arms build up, a tendency of tightening of control over the
stock-list of the arms and military equipments tap to Azerbaijan can
be observed. The latest example is the decision of the Department of
State of the United States to remove Azerbaijan from the list of
countries eligible to purchase American military equipment, which was
taken on the assumption of justified anxiety that it might be used
against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh5.
And alternatively, possible negative aftermaths in case of increasing
military and technical imbalance between Armenian and Azerbaijani
conflicting parties resulted in reconsideration of the restrictions
to the stock list of heavy attacking arms tap to Armenia by Russia
within the framework of Military and Technical partnership of the
CSTO member countries and increasing of the level of military and
political cooperation by two parties.
Formation of deceptive feeling of military dominance in the
atmosphere of military euphoria in isolation from the realities and
tendencies of the regional and global policy should not tempt
Azerbaijan to use power in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, at
least taking into consideration a negative experience of the
authorities of the neighboring Georgia which went through such
psycho-emotional condition on the eve of war in August 2008.
1 http://panorama.am/ru/politics/2012/07/09/m-hakobyan/, 9 Eюля
2012C.
2 Председатель eсламской партEE aзербайдOана: В случае войны в
Карабахе дOEхад обязателен для каOдоCо мусульманEна.
http://www.salamnews.org/ru news/read/8421/eksklyuziv-predsedatel-islamskoy-partii-azerbaydana-v-sluchae-voyn
i-v-karabaxe-dixad-obyazatelen-dlya-kajdogo-musulmanina/, 20 мая
2010C.
3 , прEзывает eсламская партEя
aзербайдOана. http://www.zerkalo.az/2009-07-17/politics, 17 Eюля
2009C.
4Azeri Press Agency, 02 авCуста 2010C.,
http://ru.apa.az/print.php?id=169031.
5 http://news.am/rus/news/111528.html, 29 Eюня 2012C.
“Globus” analytical journal, #8, 2012
Return
__________________________________________________ __________________________
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interview to “Golos Armenii”[26.07.2012]
* TRANS-CASPIAN GAS PIPELINE: GOALS, PROBLEMS AND RISKS
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http://noravank.am/eng/articles/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=6633
02.08.2012
Sergei Sargsyan
Deputy Head of the Center for Political Studies,
“Noravank” Foundation; Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.)
Currently military and political situation round Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict is mainly characterized by a general influence of the
following factors:
- Combat readiness and fighting capacity of the armed forces of the
conflicting parties, sustaining of the acceptable balance of
offensive/defensive arms between them;
- Availability of a sufficient level of mobilization resources,
including Diaspora potential by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan;
- Military and technical, military and political cooperation of
Armenia and Azerbaijan with neighboring states; their direct
involvement in military and political blocks;
- Tendency of development and availability\absence of threats to the
domestic political situation in all three states;
- Level of interest in the conflict on behalf of the regional and
global powers;
- Dynamics and efficiency of the negotiations process;
- Condition and dynamics of economic development of Armenia, NKR and
Azerbaijan;
- Development of military and political situation in the Black Sea,
Caspian and Middle East regions in general.
Amid the situation when a process of accumulation of an experience of
appearance of new states - from East Timor and Kosovo to Abkhazia,
South Ossetia, Eritrea and South Sudan - with different levels of
recognition, the Armenian sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are
sure that Azerbaijan will not manage to attain its separate
advantages, and that time is not on Azerbaijan’s side either.
This is also proved by drastic changes in the attitude towards NKC of
a wide range of international organizations which previously gave
absolute preference to the principle of a territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan and did not go into judicial details of appearance of
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which proceeded in compliance with the
existing laws in the period of collapse of the USSR.
Such a tendency is among other factors which are conditioned by the
dynamics of the development of domestic political situation in
Azerbaijan which is on the one hand characterized by the public
discontent by the authoritarian state control methods and on the
other hand by the intensification of the process of Islamization of
the society.
The latter factor make Azerbaijan more vulnerable to the influence of
the “wave of revolutions” coming from the Muslim
countries of Africa and Middle East, because these states, under the
availability of definite social and cultural, ethnic-national,
social-economic and public and political differences, are united by
the practice of using the mobilization potential of the so-called
“Muslim street” - most socially unprotected part of the
population which is more exposed to the reception of the Islamist
propaganda as an alternative to the ideology of the ruling regime.
The current interests of the key actors of the global politics, which
are in variance to a large extent, due to a number of reasons
objectively promote non-admission of initiating a force solution of
the conflict by Azerbaijan.
For the EU Azerbaijan is of some interest first of all as a source of
energy carriers which can be alternative to the Russian, and as a
corridor for gas and oil supply from the countries of Central Asia
by-passing the territory of Russia. Its role has become even more
important against the background of increasing instability in the
countries of North Africa and Middle East and especially in the
context of developments round Iran which was manifested in the form
of imposing and gradual strengthening of economic and political
sanctions, not to speak of a possibility of carrying out military
operation against the Islamic Republic.
The interest of the United States (and Israel) is supplemented by
assigning a minor but important role to Azerbaijan in case of
carrying out military operation against Iran.
Russia is interested in close partner relations with Azerbaijan first
of all in the context of mutually advantageous cooperation on the
Caspian Sea, not-allowing the warships of non-Caspian states in its
water zone, as well as prolonging the lease agreement of
“Daryal” Information-analytical center (phased-array
early warning radar) dislocated near the population center of Gabala,
which expires in 2012 (it is rather of military and political than
military and technical interest).
But the prospects of such economic cooperation with the EU and
military cooperation with the USA and Russia, directly depends on
preservation of at least relative stability in the zone of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, maintaining of current status-quo and
continuation of negotiation process within the framework of the OSCE
Minks Group, which has been stated for many times on different levels
and from different political grounds. It means that it depends on an
absolute exclusion of military and political risks connected with
escalation of the military actions in the zone of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Consequently, resumption of military actions by Azerbaijan may be
initiated exclusively under the influence of growing threatening
tendencies of the development of domestic political situation in the
country, prospects of loosing a control over the country by the
political elite of the Azerbaijani Republic and fear for their
political, and may be even physical survival.
It should be mentioned here that the scenario of escalation of
tension in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be triggered
only by Azerbaijani party as resumption of military actions by
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic:
- firstly, will bring to the loss of a whole political and diplomatic
groundwork and all the achievements of the Armenian diplomacy for
recent 20 years on explanation, prospects and historical background
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict;
- secondly, is irrational from the military and political viewpoints.
There is no practical sense in changing current and established
configuration of a confrontation line by the Armenian parties - today
it is the most optimal for the minimization of the defense expenses -
mobilization and technical. The balance of strength today is mainly
provided due to the modern and consistent engineering infrastructure
of deep layer in depth defense. Going beyond this line will cause
undesirable and may be even catastrophic for Armenia and NKR
rebalancing in favour of Azerbaijan.
- thirdly, it differs drastically from the purpose of Yerevan and
Stepanakert to obtain recognition of the independence of the NKR
through a wide democratization of authorities and society, which sets
the NKR apart from Azerbaijan with its tendency to strengthen
authoritarian methods of control.
- fourthly, resumption of military actions by Armenian parties will
put a pressure on the economies of the Republic of Armenia and NKR,
bring to a breakdown of social and economic and moral and
psychological condition of the population. In order not to allow
resulting of this situation in uncontrollable political processes,
very forcible arguments of resumption of war should be presented;
objective and real goals and tasks should be set, meanwhile today
there are no such goals, tasks and motivation.
Real distribution of political forces in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, free functioning of oppositional parties and movements,
democratic way of transition of authority by means of elections (in
contrast to dynastic moves, like in Azerbaijan), does not threaten
domestic destabilization, create necessity of artificial shift of the
attention of the Armenian society to the situation in the conflict
zone or demand an occasion for strengthening of the control over the
public and political life in the country under the precise of
“being at war”.
Besides, the Azerbaijani authorities need softening of the critics -
on behalf of both nominal secular opposition and real gaining in
weight Islamic or Islamist opposition - of their actions taken in the
direction of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution by any means -
both diplomatic and military - concerning not keeping their promises
and factual useless embezzlement/spending of budget funds directed to
the strengthening of the force structures of the state.
Absence of any tangible results from the armaments race carried out
for many years, sounding of numerous threats of using the armed
forces for returning “20% of occupied territories”,
without substantiating it by real strengthening of combating activity
in the conflict zone, is considered by opposition as a direct
indicator of non-efficiency of the incumbent authorities, large-scale
plundering of the military budget on the state level and
strengthening of the security agencies only for the reason of
self-preservation of a ruling elite.
At the same time escalation of tension in the conflict zone against
the background of a continuing race of armaments, supplemented by the
policy of promising a military revenge and enrooting of the image of
the enemy-Armenian, is dangerous because very soon it may come out of
control and spin up autonomously.
According to the statement of the Minister of Defence of
Nagorno-Karabakh Movses Hakobyan, Azerbaijani side mounts tension at
the front line year after year: in the first six months of this year
the number of cease fire regime violation cases by Azerbaijan has
doubled as compared to the same period of last year and the number of
diversions has quadrupled. In the first six months of the last year
enemy arranged two diversions and this year four diversions have been
registered1.
Such provocations tend to obtain some military and political goals
for both domestic and foreign political purposes, such as:
- exposure of
* a level of battle readiness and combat effectiveness of the units
of the Armed Forces of the NKR and Republic of Armenia;
* system of defence of the Army of Defence of the NKR, mode of the
protection of the state frontier of the RA; density of firepower
at lines of engineering facilities;
* tactics and operational flexibility of the units of the Army of
Defence of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armed Forces of the RA;
- writing off non-combat losses among the personnel of the armed
forces of Azerbaijan for the sporadic minor actions and mutual
exchange of fire;
- presenting such combat activities to the Azerbaijani society as an
indicator of military build-up and justification of mismatch of the
stated rates of the economic growth of Azerbaijan with the real
improvement of the social and economic condition of broad layers of
population;
- sustaining in the society of Azerbaijan a psychological
“state of war”- revanchist organizations and individual
activists state about the reduction of its level among the modern
Azerbaijani youth;
- justification of authoritarianism in domestic policy, restriction
of the activity of the public and political, human rights
organizations, freedom of expression as well as their possible
stiffening in the future;
- attraction/retention of the attention of the international
community at the issue of pendency of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
At the same time the ruling elite in Azerbaijan should realize that
the escalation of the military situation in the zone of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict plays into hand of the Islamic and Islamist
opposition, because, first of all almost any scenario of development
of the military actions, excluding a “Blitzkrieg”, will
affect the stability of the ruling regime, and secondly, it will
become a convenient occasion to turn for help to the Islamic
countries, receiving financial support from them (in some cases
bypassing official state structures) as well as recruitment for
military actions human resources, which mostly adhere Islamist
ideology and proved their mobility during the events in Libya and
Syria in 2011-20122.
The appeals of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan to declare martial law
in the country and declare jihad3 prove that the Islamist opposition
in Azerbaijan has stirred up for recent years; in August it
established the “Organization of Karabakh Resistance”4,
which acts alongside with “secular” organizations of the
same kind, and the most active and odious among them is the
“Organization of Liberation of Karabakh”.
Increase in number of the revanchist statements by the
representatives of the Azerbaijani authorities, threats to withdraw
from the negotiations process which is held through the intermediary
of the OSCE Minsk group and to solve the conflict by military means
caused the correction of the mode of military and technical
cooperation not only with Azerbaijan but with Armenia either. Despite
the concern expressed by Baku regarding fomenting tension in
Azerbaijani-Iranian relations and using it as a pretext for strike
heavy arms build up, a tendency of tightening of control over the
stock-list of the arms and military equipments tap to Azerbaijan can
be observed. The latest example is the decision of the Department of
State of the United States to remove Azerbaijan from the list of
countries eligible to purchase American military equipment, which was
taken on the assumption of justified anxiety that it might be used
against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh5.
And alternatively, possible negative aftermaths in case of increasing
military and technical imbalance between Armenian and Azerbaijani
conflicting parties resulted in reconsideration of the restrictions
to the stock list of heavy attacking arms tap to Armenia by Russia
within the framework of Military and Technical partnership of the
CSTO member countries and increasing of the level of military and
political cooperation by two parties.
Formation of deceptive feeling of military dominance in the
atmosphere of military euphoria in isolation from the realities and
tendencies of the regional and global policy should not tempt
Azerbaijan to use power in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, at
least taking into consideration a negative experience of the
authorities of the neighboring Georgia which went through such
psycho-emotional condition on the eve of war in August 2008.
1 http://panorama.am/ru/politics/2012/07/09/m-hakobyan/, 9 Eюля
2012C.
2 Председатель eсламской партEE aзербайдOана: В случае войны в
Карабахе дOEхад обязателен для каOдоCо мусульманEна.
http://www.salamnews.org/ru news/read/8421/eksklyuziv-predsedatel-islamskoy-partii-azerbaydana-v-sluchae-voyn
i-v-karabaxe-dixad-obyazatelen-dlya-kajdogo-musulmanina/, 20 мая
2010C.
3 , прEзывает eсламская партEя
aзербайдOана. http://www.zerkalo.az/2009-07-17/politics, 17 Eюля
2009C.
4Azeri Press Agency, 02 авCуста 2010C.,
http://ru.apa.az/print.php?id=169031.
5 http://news.am/rus/news/111528.html, 29 Eюня 2012C.
“Globus” analytical journal, #8, 2012
Return
__________________________________________________ __________________________
Another materials of author
* “IT IS NECESSARY TO RAISE ENERGY EFFICIENCY”, - says
the deputy head of the Center for Political Studies of
“Noravank” Foundation Sergei SARGSYAN in his
interview to “Golos Armenii”[26.07.2012]
* TRANS-CASPIAN GAS PIPELINE: GOALS, PROBLEMS AND RISKS
[25.06.2012]
* TURKEY IN THE US MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM: PRIMARY ASSESSMENT AND
POSSIBLE PROSPECTS[13.10.2011]
* ARMENIA AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE INTERESTS OF THE MILITARY AND
POLITICAL BLOCKS[05.09.2011]
* SHALE GAS GHOST[08.02.2011]