Articles by Yunis Gurbanov

Yunis Gurbanov holds university degrees in international relations, politics, law and public administration from Azerbaijan State University, the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, and Columbia University in New York City. His Ph.D. in Political Science is from Cologne University in Germany, where he tutored at the Institute for International Politics and Foreign Policy. He also worked at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. His most recent published book is: Geopolitics and Energy Diplomacy in the Caspian Region – Developments after the Downfall of the Soviet Union.


Introduction As the G7 recalibrates its global priorities around economic resilience and geopolitical control, a new architecture of fragmentation is emerging, which is one that sidelines multilateral institutions. This piece examines how recent shifts in trade, security, and climate diplomacy reflect not a failure of global coordination, but a deliberate strategy of selective engagement. Drawing…

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