Day: April 17, 2026

#SouthCaucasus
x.com/HudsonInstitute/status…Hudson Institute (@HudsonInstitute)Policymakers should no longer treat Black Sea, the Caucasus, and the Caspian Sea as separate strategic “folders.”

Geography here is best understood not in terms of states, but as a network of nodes and corridors—ports, straits, pipelines, railways, digital cables, and mountain passes—whose functionality determines the resilience of Eurasian connectivity.

A more useful framework should be adopted, one that views this arc as a single interconnected system—the Black Sea-Caspian Region,  @LukeDCoffey and Inal Sherip argue.

Read in  @TheNatlInterest:  nationalinterest.org/blog/si…—  https://x.com/HudsonInstitute/status/2044794975305511280

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Apr 17, 2026

RT  @alchemiebooks: The 9th Duke of Argyll in golden youth. Princess Margaret, who lived in the former Kensington Palace flat of the Duke &…

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Apr 17, 2026