GEOPOLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA
The Zengezur Corridor is a strategic project aimed at connecting Azerbaijan’s mainland to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Emerging as a legacy of the Second Karabakh War in 2020, this initiative holds the potential to transform the economic and geopolitical structure of the South Caucasus. However, Russia’s military presence in Armenia, China’s pursuit of rare earth minerals in Afghanistan, the US-China trade wars, the regional interests of the United States (US), the European