Mr. Jahangir E. Arasli is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD). His major roles include planning, coordinating, and implementing research, as well as promoting, and spreading policy research activities of IDD among key stakeholders and building a network locally and internationally in accordance with IDD strategy. Areas of his research interest include modern warfare, counterterrorism, violent (terrorist, insurgent, and political extremist) non-state actors, low-intensity conflicts, new security threats and challenges, civil-military relations, decision-making in the national security domain, and security sector’s reform.

Read the papers authored by Mr. Jahangir E. Arasli:

• State vs. Street (Part II): Strategic Implications of Criminal Insurgencies in Latin America

• State vs. Street (Part I): Strategic Implications of Criminal Insurgencies in Latin America 

• Tortuga of the Red Sea: Maritime Insurgency at the Global Junction

• Dissimilar Naval War in the Black Sea: Implications for the Caspian Maritime Theatre

• On the ‘BRINK’: The Anti-Western Coalition Opts for Long, Open-Ended War

• The Men with the Guns: The War Wrecks Russia’s Civil-Military Relations

• The Caspian Security Aberration: After-Effects of the Moscow-Tehran Strategic Axis 

• In the Shadow of the Thunderstorm: The Imminent Escalation of the European War Comes Closer

• An Assertive Giant: The Geopolitics of India in an Evolving Global Order

• Blind Alley: The European War Gets Chronic

• “At All Costs”: Russia Gets Ready for Another Deadly Gambit in Ukraine 

• The Caspian ‘Black Hole’: Soft Link in the Middle Corridor?

• Escalation for the Sake of Procrastination: Russia Tries to Win its Lost War 

• Box of Gems or Pandora’s Box?: How the European War Shifts Central Asia.

• Game of Corridors: Emerging Actors, Interests, and Security Risks of the Greater Caspian Region

• One Hundred Days in Ukraine: Blitzkrieg, Stalemate, Deadlock

• The Third Horseman’s Ride: How this War in Europe Upsets Global Food Security

• Wise Monkey on the Hill: Chinese Opportunities, Challenges, and Trade-Offs in the European War

• Russian Military Power in Ukraine: Has the Bear Turned Into a Bugbear?

• Out of the Comfort Zone: The European Dimension of the Crisis Over Ukraine

• The Bear Got Stuck in the Ukrainian Mud: What’s Next?

• The Fog of the “Non-War” in Ukraine: The First Ten Days & Ten Initial Observations

• Carbons of War: The Environmental Impact of Military Activity in Conflict and Peace

• Brace for a Blazing Summer: The European War Enters Its Critical Phase