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Analysis September 15, 2023 The Eagle in the South Caucasus: Armenia Tests Alternative Geopolitical Waters By: Walter Landgraf, Nareg Seferian On September 11, US and Armenian troops kicked off the “Eagle Partner” joint military exercise at the Zar and Armavir training sites near Yerevan. The exercise is set to run for ten days and is relatively low-key, involving only... Read more	Intern Corner September 12, 2023 Empowering Iraq: The $27 Billion Deal for Iraq’s Energy Sufficiency By: Noor Kareem This past July, Iraq and France’s TotalEnergies finalized the Gas Growth Integrated Project, a $27 billion energy deal aimed at Iraq’s natural resources and improving the country’s electricity supply. Despite Iraq’s natural wealth, decades of conflict and corruption have... Read more
Baltic Bulletin September 11, 2023 The Vilnius NATO Summit Brings Opportunities for Closer Nordic-Baltic Integration By: Otto Tabuns The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) heads of state and government participated in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Vilnius, Lithuania, in July — the fourth summit the Alliance has held since the full scale Russian invasion... Read more	Analysis September 11, 2023 Central Africa’s Aging Leadership at a Crossroads By: Raphael Parens, Marcel Plichta The coup in Gabon is a stark reminder across Central Africa that no leader is safe. President Ali Bongo Ondimba, an aging and sick president, has been ousted by the military with a great deal of popular support. General... Read more
Intern Corner September 7, 2023 UAE and France: A Key, and Challenging, Relationship By: Louis Vitrand On January 17, 2022, a little after 10 a.m., the Iranian-aligned Houthis in Yemen carried out a surprise, deadly drone attack on the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Abu Dhabi. Paris responded by activating, for the first... Read more	Analysis September 6, 2023 Wagner’s Head is Dead, Now Bury the Body By: Marcel Plichta, Christopher Faulkner, Raphael Parens Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead in a plane crash, alongside Wagner Group’s co-founder and operational commander, Dmitry Utkin. They leave behind a business empire and thousands of security contractors in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The Kremlin has... Read more