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Thomas de Waal

  • Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe and Writer, Freelance
England, London
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Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe. Scholar/writer on Caucasus, E. Europe, Russia. 2022-3 Fellow at IWM, Vienna. Translator of Osip Mandelstam.
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Armenia, Azerbaijan and the unfinished peace

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By Thomas de Waal
| Engelsberg Ideas
The South Caucasus is beginning to shed some of the gloomy epithets that have clung to it over the years. It is no longer ‘conflict-wracked’ or ‘turbulent’ and sometimes nowadays even the opposite. Since the start of the Iran conflict at the end of February, flight maps have shown a narrow band of aeroplanes swarming across the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, as they avoid both Russia and Iran. This is now a region between other people’s conflicts and less defined by its own.
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There Is No Shortcut for Europe in Armenia

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By Thomas De WaalPublished, Thomas de Waal
| Carnegie Endowment
Armenia has never received so much attention. The smallest of the three South Caucasus republics is now the most dynamic and most democratic, emerging from years of semi-isolation. The reward is for Yerevan to host the eighth summit of the European Political Community (EPC) on May 4, 2026, followed immediately by the first ever bilateral EU-Armenia summit.
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Rewiring the South Caucasus: TRIPP and the New Geopolitics of Connectivity

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By Thomas de Waal, Areg Kochinyan, Zaur Shiriyev
| Carnegie Endowment
For more than three decades, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict has exerted human, economic, and political tolls on both countries. In 2026, thanks to direct dialogue between Baku and Yerevan and agreements brokered in Washington, both a peace accord and the reopening of the region look to be in sight. Connectivity and regional economic cooperation are driving the process forward.
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