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LINKS Director at the IIEA in Dublin

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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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.

“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”

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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NATO Secretary General Rasmussen with Georgia's President Saakashvili at NATO HQs on 3 April 2012.

NATO Secretary General talks of “special partnership” with Georgia after meeting with President Saakashvili

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen praised Georgia’s commitment to NATO and to domestic reforms on 3 April as he welcomed President Mikheil Saakashvili to the Alliance’s headquarters in Brussels. “Georgia is a special partner for NATO. You are committed to our operations, to NATO accession, and committed to reforms … In all, Georgia is […]

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The EU’s role in the South Caucasus

LINKS Director, Dennis Sammut shared a platform with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Philippe Lefort and the  European Parliament Special Rapporteur for the South Caucasus, Bulgarian MEP Evgeni Kirilov at a briefing event held at the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels on 2 December 2011. A short report of the meeting is […]

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Addressing the security challenges in the South Caucasus

Events in the Middle East and North Africa risk the EU taking its eye off the ball as regards its eastern neighbourhood, particularly the South Caucasus region, argue Dennis Sammut and Amanda Paul in this Policy Brief published in March 2011 by the European Policy Centre in Brussels. Any kind of destabilisation of the regions […]

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