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COMMONSPACE.EU: news, analysis and comments on events in and around the Caucasus Region. Updated Daily.

March 1, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

Commonspace.eu is a collaborative project between LINKS and partners in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, with particular emphasis on developments related to the conflicts and conflict resolution processes in the Caucasus Region. Our partners are signatories to a voluntary code of conduct aimed at improving standards of reporting and developing mutual respect whilst dealing with topics […]

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Ulvi Pepinova: “We should resist an imposed doctrine of ethnic hatred”.

May 20, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

Azerbaijani born artist Ulvi Pepinova creates glass paintings inspired by natural minerals and images of earth taken from space.  She is also a board member at Vatan (International Society of the Meskhetian Turks), External Communications Officer of Conservative Friends of Turkey and has just launched the Chelsea Young Writers Club for children. On the eve of the opening of an exhibition […]

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LINKS Director at the IIEA in Dublin

May 10, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

Dennis Sammut, Director of LINKS Analysis was the keynote speaker at an event held on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at the Institute for International and European Affairs in Dublin on the theme “Juggling Priorities: peace, modernisation and democratisation in the South Caucasus”. Listen to the podcast of the talk here

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Dennis Sammut chairing the EPC Policy Dialogue on Iran's nuclear stand-off in Brussels on 8 April 2013

LINKS Director chairs EPC Policy Dialogue on Iran’s Nuclear stand-off and its regional role.

May 1, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

Iran’s nuclear stand-off and its regional role was the theme of a policy dialogue organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels on 8 April 2013. LINKS Director, Dennis Sammut chaired a panel of experts which included Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian Armenian Council; Savas Genc, Professor of International Relations at Fatih University in Istanbul; Walter Posch, Senior […]

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Public Diplomacy: Georgian Folk Ensemble Ersioni entertains Kremlin.

March 18, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

The Georgian Folk Ensemble “Ersioni” was earlier this month given a standing ovation when it performed in the Kremlin, a sure sign of the thaw in Georgian-Russian Relations. Since the election of Bidhzina Ivanishvili as prime Minister last October the two sides have moved to resolve some of the outstanding issues between them. However restoration […]

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Exhibits at Re: Orient, an exhibition of modern Arab art which opened in Sharjah on 11 March

“Re: Orient” – Sharjah Exhibition explores the limits of political and social boundaries, past and present.

March 18, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

Dennis Sammut has been to Sharjah for the opening of the exhibition Re: Orient, an on-going political and social conversation through art. The United Arab Emirates is not exactly a hotbed of political intrigue. Despite the fact that several dozen people are currently on trial for anti-State activities, most citizens prefer to concentrate their efforts on business […]

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The EPC meeting on Azerbaijan in Brussels on Tuesday, 5th March, from l to r Dennis Sammut, Gulshan Pashayeva, Denis Daniilidis, Amanda Paul and Philippe Lefort.

Azerbaijan at the crossroads. Unusually frank and open discussion in Brussels on EU-Azerbaijan relations and the way forward.

March 8, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

Officials and experts discuss problems in EU-Azerbaijan relations and the way forward at an unusually frank and open discussion in Brussels. The European Policy Centre in Brussels and the SAM, the Strategic Studies centre under the Presidential Administration in Azerbaijan hosted a round table discussion in Brussels on Tuesday, 4 March 2013 with the theme […]

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Change through the ballot box happened in Georgia in October of last year. Can it happen again in the South Caucasus?

Change is in the air in the South Caucasus, and not all of it is planned.

February 21, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

“The South Caucasus  is changing in multiple ways. Some of these changes are planned, others are more spontaneous”, said LINKS Director Dennis Sammut when answering questions put to him by the Azerbaijani news portal news.az.

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Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation – The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations”

February 15, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

The European Policy Centre, a leading Brussels think-tank, has just published a policy brief prepared by LINKS Director, Dennis Sammut. Entitled “Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation – The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations”, the paper looks at shortcomings that need to be addressed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia as they […]

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Largest Conference on Yemen in Europe in two decades focuses on future challenges.

January 19, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

A Conference entitled Yemen: Challenges for the future was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London on 11-12 January 2013. This was an impressive gathering with over two hundred participants, including a large contingent who flew from Yemen for the occasion, academics from all over Europe, as […]

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