{"id":5679,"date":"2026-03-13T16:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:19:38","slug":"13-03-2026-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/2026\/03\/13-03-2026-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SOUTH CAUCASUS BETWEEN WARS: CAN THE REGION BECOME UNIFIED?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In another episode of \u201cLine of Contact \u2013 Topical Issue\u201d on the Press Clubs TV platform, geopolitical challenges facing the South Caucasus are discussed. Experts \u2014 Director of the Caucasus Center for Political Analysis Ahmed Alili and Senior Research Fellow at ARPI Armenia Beniyamin Poghosyan \u2014 analyze the impact of the Russia-Ukraine War, the crisis around Iran, and relations between Russia and the West on the policies of Armenia and Azerbaijan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speakers discuss the possibility of coordination between Baku and Yerevan, the unblocking of communications, and the role of Georgia as a key transit state. They also examine the prospects for forming a regional identity in the South Caucasus and the risks of the region becoming an arena of global rivalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"The South Caucasus Between Wars  Can the Region Become Unified\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KbKAUeFHhJQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another episode of \u201cLine of Contact \u2013 Topical Issue\u201d on the Press Clubs TV platform, geopolitical challenges facing the South Caucasus are discussed. Experts \u2014 Director of the Caucasus Center for Political Analysis Ahmed Alili and Senior Research Fellow at ARPI Armenia Beniyamin Poghosyan \u2014 analyze the impact of the Russia-Ukraine War, the crisis around Iran, and relations between Russia and the West on the policies of Armenia and Azerbaijan. The speakers discuss the possibility of coordination between Baku and Yerevan, the unblocking of communications, and the role of Georgia as a key transit state. They also examine the prospects for forming a regional identity in the South Caucasus and the risks of the region becoming an arena of global rivalry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypc.am\/lineofcontact\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}