Strategically important to Afghanistan, Iran and a host of other issues, NATO should pay attention to Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Conceptions of ideolgical ayatollahs aside, the Iranians have proven they can play a pragmatic geopolitical game in the Caucasus.
Putin's attempts to bolster regional ties have many in the West concerned.
Faced with a troubled region, high-maintenance allies and an increasingly opaque government, Baku sees trouble ahead.
President Saakashvili's recent Washington visit has drawn the White House deeper into domestic Georgian politics.
The post-Soviet countries are grown-up, though not necessarily as the West might have wished.
Poverty and economic ruin are the least of Armenia's many problems.
Boris Ivanishvili has taken just two weeks to unsettle the entire Georgian political scene.
What the return of the prodigal president means for Russia's neighbors.
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