EURASIAN STUDIES

Authors
Ataallah Abdi 1
Yadollah Karimipour 2
Abdolreza Faraji rad 3
Zahra Saee 4
1 Assistant Professor of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor of political geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
3 Associate Professor of Geography, Islamic Azad University, Research and Sciences Branch, Tehran, Iran
4 Ph.D. Candidate in Political Geography, kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

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Reposted at RIEAS in 20 December 2025.

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Introduction

Iran and Turkey are the two most important players in the Middle East and the Islamic world with a long-standing relationship with each other. With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey was formed from the remains of the Ottoman Turks as a modern nation. In this new era, Iran-Turkey relations entered a new phase. With the advent of the Islamic Revolution, relations between Turkey and Iran were on the ups and downs. ... Read more

Alexander Brown, Charlotte Krausz and Rob Gioia
(Researchers at the American Policy Council)

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Note: On 28 November 2025, RIEAS posted an article on “Reimaging Turkish Power: Erdogan’s “Century of Turkiye” Vision and the African Dimension”
On 14 December 2025, RIEAS posted the article “Charting Iran’s Influence in Africa”.

Although Tehran’s activities in Africa tend to receive far less attention than its machinations in the Middle East, Europe, or Latin America, they form a critical pillar of the Islamic Republic’s global strategy… Africa is a significant for Iran, providing it with a testing ground for its influence operations, a pathway for sanctions evasion, and strategic depth for its foreign policy initiatives…. Read more

Asia Watch – A bimonthly column by Professor Swaran Singh in which he analyses major developments across Asia

Swaran Singh

(Professor Swaran Singh teaches disarmament and diplomacy at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation & Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) in 2022-23 and at the School of International Studies, Beijing University. A keen observer of China, Professor Singh has been an Asia Fellow (2001-2002) and has held several visiting professorships in China, UPEACE and other universities.)

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History is replete with instances of West-induced regime changes across West Asia, including in Iran. It was an American sleight of hand that derailed the democratic process in Iran, which eventually brought the current Islamic regime to power. By using the nuclear bogey to dismantle the regime in Tehran, the US-Israeli military action only reminds us of the campaign against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, citing his chemical and biological weaponry. If the outcome of the campaign in Iraq was political instability, chaos and a rise of extremism, the result might be no different in Iran as well. While the Khamenei-led order might still survive, it is doubtful whether the Iranian polity is prepared to absorb a radical political transformation… Read more

Yubaraj Das
(Currently working as a Researcher at Indic Researchers Forum INDICRF, India)

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The Arab World which is known for its strict and unchanging government. After 2011, it went through a drastic power transformation with an unprecedented wave of protests and citizen demands. Some countries witnessed large-scale peaceful demonstrations leading to a shift in their ruling regime. .. Read more

Damjan Krnjević Mišković
(Former Senior Serbian and UN official, is Professor of Practice at ADA University; Director for Policy Research, Analysis, and Publications at its Institute for Development and Diplomacy; and Co-Editor of Baku Dialogues, the views expressed in this essay are his own)

Copyright @ https://bakudialogues.ada.edu.az/articles/on-some-conceptual-advantages-of-the-term-silk-road-region-12-07-2023 - (Baku Dialogues Journal) – Published at RIEAS (www.rieas.gr) on 29 July 2023.

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One part of the internal deliberations involving the re launch of Baku Dialogues that took place in the second and third quarters of 2020 focused on the journal’s subtitle; another revolved around the language of our Editorial Statement, which we published in the Fall 2020 edition that ended the publication’s hiatus. What substantively held together these two threads was the question of what to call the part of the world in which Azerbaijan is located….Read more  

Alyona Pavlenko
(Journalist)

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Publication date at RIEAS (www.rieas.gr) 7 May 2023

SHUSHA, Azerbaijan, May 3. Azerbaijan is an important partner for European countries today, Director at the Research Institute for European and American Studies, John Nomikos told Trend on the sidelines of the conference held in Shusha on the "Formation of the geopolitics of Greater Eurasia: from the past to the present and the future" topic, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Azerbaijan's national leader Heydar Aliyev.... Read more