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Thomas de Waal

  • Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe and Writer, Freelance
England, London
As seen in: Época Negócios, The New York Times, BBC, BBC Mundo, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Der Tagesspiegel, POLITICO, POLITICO Europe and
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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Managing Montreux: Turkey and the Russia-Ukraine War in the Black Sea

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By Thomas De WaalPublished, Thomas de Waal, De Waal
| Carnegie Endowment
On February 28, 2022, four days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Turkey invoked the powers granted to it under the 1936 Montreux Convention and announced restrictions on vessels of war passing through the Turkish Straits. Turkey’s application of the convention, which will be ninety years old on July 20, 2026, gave Ankara authority over the passage of ships through the two straits that lead to and from the Black Sea.
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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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