... completely dismantled. Azerbaijan became the second state after Russia to integrate the secessionist territory, although the mode of how Karabakh and Chechnya got incorporated significantly
differ
.
The change in the status quo also contributed to Iran’s notable invigoration. Two Eurasian giants, China and India, have also adopted a higher profile in the Caucasus. With the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S., the EU (and France in particular) along with ...
... conduct.’
Lim then states that China cannot attain the Middle East stability it seeks for BRI if Israel’s attacks on regional states—premised on countering Iran—continue and thus that China should
help
Israel fulfil their objectives vis à vis Iran in order to bring them to an end:
‘Still, for so long as Iran’s leadership continues to threaten Israel with destruction and build up the means that would allow it to potentially pursue that end, Israel’s decisionmakers would not be misguided in continually ...
... India allows peer competitor China to exploit the situation and trigger an Iranian tilt to its side, in pursuance of Beijing’s tangible offers of Iranian incorporation within the infrastructural ambit of the robustly fording Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Iran portfolio also brings to the fore, the debate about what exactly is strategic autonomy in foreign policy, and how does it pan out. Among the animated dynamic setting of an interconnected and interdependent world, it is most understood and internalized ...
