Paul Goble

Paul Goble is an American analyst, writer and columnist with expertise on Russia and Eurasia. Currently teaching one course at the Institute of World Politics, he served as director of publications at Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA), where he also co-edited ADA’s biweekly online publication Azerbaijan in the World. Earlier, he served as vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia.  While there, he launched the Window on Eurasia series, which he distributes both as a blog, at http://www.windowoneurasia.blogspot.comand via e-list.  Prior to joining the faculty there in 2004, he served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department (including as special adviser on Soviet nationality issues and Baltic affairs to Secretary of State James Baker), the International Broadcasting Bureau, at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as other institutions.  He writes frequently on ethnic and religious issues and has edited five volumes on ethnicity and religion in the former Soviet space and has published more than 150 articles on ethnic and nationality questions.  Trained at Miami University (B.A., 1970) and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1973), he has been decorated by the governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for his work in promoting Baltic independence and the withdrawal of Russian forces from those formerly occupied lands.

Articles

• Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1 , 2008)
  Azerbaijan on the cusp: Achievements of 2007, challenges of 2008
• Vol. 1, No. 4 (March 15 , 2008)
  New book documents: Armenian eradication of Azerbaijani culture in the occupied territories
• Vol. 1, No. 2 (February 15 , 2008)
  Azerbaijanis outside of Azerbaijan: Émigrés, diasporas and national minorities
• Vol. 1, No. 3 (March 1 , 2008)
  Will Medvedev Change Moscow’s Approach to Baku?
• Vol. 1, No. 5 (April 1 , 2008)
  New book outlines Baku’s approach to consular affairs
• Vol. 1, No. 6 (April 15 , 2008)
  Public diplomacy: An Azerbaijani priority since 1918
• Vol. 1, No. 7 (May 1 , 2008)
  Baku’s detention of Russian nuclear equipment destined for Iran: Why it happened and what it means
• Vol. 1, No. 8 (May 15 , 2008)
  Georgia’s Azerbaijanis: Problems and possibilities
• Vol. 1, No. 9 (June 1 , 2008)
  Azerbaijan’s other ethnic minorities: Between politics and geopolitics
• Vol. 1, No. 14-15 (September 1 , 2008)
  Azerbaijan after Georgia: Ten shattered assumptions of Azerbaijani foreign policy
• Vol. 1, No. 16 (September 15 , 2008)
  GUAM after Georgia: More important than ever or soon to die?
• Vol. 1, No. 17 (October 1 , 2008)
  Why Azerbaijan’s new Consulate General in Aktau matters
• Vol. 1, No. 18 (October 15 , 2008)
  Turkey returns to a transformed Transcaucasus
• Vol. 1, No. 20 (November 15 , 2008)
  Military planning in CIS countries after Georgia: The challenges of change
• Vol. 1, No. 21 (December 1 , 2008)
  Is Iran the main beneficiary of the Russian-Georgian war?
• Vol. 1, No. 22 (December 15 , 2008)
  Baku energy summit highlights Azerbaijan’s role
• Vol. 2, No. 1 (January 1 , 2009)
  What 2008 means for Azerbaijan in the world in 2009
• Vol. 2, No. 2 (January 15 , 2009)
  How the US-Georgian charter will affect Azerbaijan
• Vol. 2, No. 3 (February 1 , 2009)
  Nabucco after Budapest: Old problems, new challenges and a changed role for Azerbaijan
• Vol. 2, No. 4 (February 15 , 2009)
  The South Caucasus reordered: New challenges to Baku’s foreign policy assumptions
• Vol. 2, No. 5 (March 1 , 2009)
  Eastern Europe as Azerbaijan’s bridge to the future
• Vol. 2, No. 6 (March 15 , 2009)
  NATO’s possible expansion to the East: Some unexpected implications for Azerbaijan
• Vol. 2, No. 7 (April 1 , 2009)
  Not a defining moment: Azerbaijan’s referendum and international standards
• Vol. 2, No. 8 (April 15 , 2009)
  Azerbaijan language and cultural center opens in Moscow
• Vol. 2, No. 9 (May 1 , 2009)
  If Turkey reopens its border with Armenia: What it might mean and what it won’t
• Vol. 2, No. 10 (May 15 , 2009)
  The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Opportunities and challenges
• Vol. 2, No. 11 (June 1 , 2009)
  How the Russian-Georgian war transformed the world
• Vol. 2, No. 12 (June 15 , 2009)
  Azerbaijan’s balanced foreign policy and the Muslim world
• Vol. 2, No. 13 (July 1 , 2009)
  The Azerbaijani-Russian gas accord: A ‘milestone’ on more than one road
• Vol. 2, No. 14 (July 15 , 2009)
  Minsk co-chair presidents press for Karabakh settlement
• Vol. 2, No. 16 (August 15 , 2009)
  Azerbaijan’s armed forces: A key player in Baku’s foreign policy
• Vol. 2, No. 17 (September 1 , 2009)
  The Armenian-Turkish rapprochement and the reordering of geopolitics in the Caucasus
• Vol. 2, No. 18 (September 15 , 2009)
  Azerbaijan and Central Asia: From bridge on the Silk Road to partnership in a globalized world
• Vol. 2, No. 19 (October 1 , 2009)
  Azerbaijan’s position in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities
• Vol. 2, No. 20 (October 15 , 2009)
  Turkic republics reaffirm ties to Turkishness at Nakhchivan
• Vol. 2, No. 21 (November 1 , 2009)
  Railroads again a key factor in geopolitics of the South Caucasus
• Vol. 2, No. 22 (November 15 , 2009)
  Azerbaijan serves as bridge among religions and peoples
• Vol. 2, No. 23 (December 1 , 2009)
  Endgame on Karabakh?
• Vol. 2, No. 24 (December 15 , 2009)
  Not by embassies alone: How Azerbaijan represents itself around the world
• Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1 , 2010)
  ‘No ordinary year’ for Azerbaijan
• Vol. 3, No. 2 (January 15 , 2010)
  Baku increases funding for study abroad program
• Vol. 3, No. 4 (February 15 , 2010)
  Territorial integrity and self-determination: From ‘either-or’ to ‘both and’
• Vol. 3, No. 5 (March 1 , 2010)
  Endgame or game end? The OSCE Minsk Group and the resolution of the Karabakh conflict
• Vol. 3, No. 6 (March 15 , 2010)
  Demography and foreign policy in the South Caucasus
• Vol. 3, No. 7 (April 1 , 2010)
  Caspian cooperation without a Caspian accord
• Vol. 3, No. 8 (April 15 , 2010)
  'Azerbaijani by nationality but patriots of Estonia’: The Azerbaijani community of Estonia
• Vol. 3, No. 9 (May 1 , 2010)
  An event of ‘both symbolic and practical’ importance: The Baku summit of world religious leaders
• Vol. 3, No. 10 (May 15 , 2010)
  Between Moscow and Baku: The Azerbaijani Diaspora in Russia
• Vol. 3, No. 11 (June 1 , 2010)
  Another turn of the Caucasus kaleidoscope: Turkish-Russian rapprochement and the Karabakh conflict
• Vol. 3, No. 12 (June 15 , 2010)
  Newly-approved military doctrine reaffirms Baku’s right to use force to liberate occupied territories
• Vol. 3, No. 13 (July 1 , 2010)
  National interests and international friendship: Confusion and conflict
• Vol. 3, No. 14 (July 15 , 2010)
  Azerbaijan and naval competition on the Caspian
• Vol. 3, No. 15 (August 1 , 2010)
  After Almaty: The future of Karabakh negotiations
• Vol. 3, No. 16-17 (September 1 , 2010)
  Another turn of the Caucasus kaleidoscope: Georgia proposes a confederation with Azerbaijan
• Vol. 3, No. 18 (September 15 , 2010)
  Russia’s difficult balancing act in the South Caucasus: Medvedev comes to Baku after visiting Yerevan
• Vol. 3, No. 19 (October 1 , 2010)
  Iran becoming a major player in the South Caucasus
• Vol. 3, No. 19 (October 1 , 2010)
  Nation-building and language policy in post-Soviet Azerbaijan
• Vol. 3, No. 20 (October 15 , 2010)
  The Caspian basin states: From conflict to cooperation?
• Vol. 3, No. 21 (November 1 , 2010)
  A balancing act within a balancing act: Promoting Azerbaijani national interests within the South Caucasus
• Vol. 3, No. 22 (November 15 , 2010)
  Narrowing divisions on the Caspian at the Baku summit: Prospects and problems
• Vol. 3, No. 23 (December 1 , 2010)
  Karabakh after Astana
• Vol. 3, No. 24 (December 15 , 2010)
  Baku offers ‘Azerbaijan model of development’ to others
• Vol. 4, No. 1 (January 1 , 2011)
  Progress toward a breakthrough: Azerbaijan and the world in 2010
• Vol. 4, No. 2 (January 15 , 2011)
  Azerbaijan to take lead in supplying Europe with natural gas
• Vol. 4, No. 3 (February 1 , 2011)
  Not just a question of authorship: A literary excavation into Ali and Nino
• Vol. 4, No. 4 (February 15 , 2011)
  Moscow and Baku have no territorial claims on each other, Russian foreign ministry says
• Vol. 4, No. 5 (March 1 , 2011)
  Baku’s administration of Muslims of the Caucasus: A bridge between the secular state and Muslims abroad
• Vol. 4, No. 6 (March 15 , 2011)
  Training abroad as a key element in Azerbaijani state policy
• Vol. 4, No. 7 (April 1 , 2011)
  Baku Muslim leader’s influence extends far beyond Azerbaijan
• Vol. 4, No. 8 (April 15 , 2011)
  Baku hosts "cultural Davos"
• Vol. 4, No. 9 (May 1 , 2011)
  Progress toward the delimitation of the Caspian sea
• Vol, 4, No. 10 (May 15 , 2011)
  Azerbaijani Eurovision victory puts Baku in a new league
• Vol. 4, No. 11 (June 1 , 2011)
  Azerbaijan joins the Non-Aligned movement
• Vol. 4, No. 12 (June 15 , 2011)
  Azerbaijan has realized its national idea
• Vol. 4, No. 13 (July 1 , 2011)
  Karabakh after Kazan
• Vol. 4, No. 14 (July 15 , 2011)
  Demographic trends shift in Azerbaijan’s favor
• Vol. 4, No. 15 (August 1 , 2011)
  Azerbaijan grapples with visa issues
• Vol. 4, No. 16-17 (September 1 , 2011)
  Gorbachev "made a mistake" on Karabakh, Russian Ambassador to Baku says
• Vol. 4, No. 18 (September 15 , 2011)
  Destruction of Caucasian Albanian sites continues in the occupied territories
• Vol. 4, No. 19 (October 1 , 2011)
  Water as a foreign policy challenge for Azerbaijan
• Vol. 4, No. 20 (October 15 , 2011)
  Moscow seeks Baku’s help in developing the North Caucasus
• Vol. 4, No. 21 (November 1 , 2011)
  “No Obstacles Remain" to flow of Azerbaijani gas to Europe
• Vol. 4, No. 22 (November 15 , 2011)
  Call to resettle Armenians in Karabakh threatens peace process
• Vol. 4, No. 23 (December 1 , 2011)
  Azerbaijan’s national idea has moved beyond the ethnic, presidential advisor says
• Vol. 4, No. 24 (December 15 , 2011)
  Yerevan again ready to play "Talysh card"
• Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 1 , 2012)
  Azerbaijan’s foreign policy in 2012: Ten issues to watch
• Vol. 5, No. 2 (January 15 , 2012)
  Armenian Diaspora increasingly hurting Armenia
• Vol. 5, No. 3 (February 1 , 2012)
  How Black January united Azerbaijan, changed the West, and destroyed the USSR
• Vol. 5, no. 4 (February 15 , 2012)
  Azerbaijan Republic should be renamed Northern Azerbaijan, Milli Majlis deputies say
• Vol. 5, No. 5 (March 1 , 2012)
  1992 Khojaly genocide remembered around the world
• Vol. 5, No. 6 (March 15 , 2012)
  Yerevan sought expulsion of Azerbaijanis and control of Karabakh in late 1940s: Documents show
• Vol. 5, No. 7 (April 1 , 2012)
  Azerbaijanis go over to the offensive about genocide
• Vol. 5, No. 8 (April 15 , 2012)
  Iran’s call for Caspian Sea—Persian gulf canal ‘unrealistic,’ experts say
• Vol. 5, No. 9 (May 1 , 2012)
  Baku counting on Azerbaijanis abroad to ‘neutralize’ Armenian lobby
• Vol. 5, No. 10 (May 15 , 2012)
  Secular state is "Azerbaijanis’ choice"
• Vol. 5, No. 11 (June 1 , 2012)
  Karabakh dispute resurfaces after World War II
• Vol. 5, No. 12 (June 15 , 2012)
  The South Tyrol model: Is it relevant for the South Caucasus?
• Vol. 5, No. 13 (July 1 , 2012)
  Nagorno-Karabakh before the war
• Vol. 5, No. 14 (July 15 , 2012)
  Armenians sought control of NKAO 45 times during Soviet period
• Vol. 5, No. 15 (August 1 , 2012)
  Azerbaijan expands ties with Latin America
• Vol. 5, No. 16-17 (September 1 , 2012)
  Azerbaijan again on the cusp of alphabet change
• Vol. 5, No. 18 (September 15 , 2012)
  Failure of "neutralisation" of Nakhchivan in 1919 recalled
• Vol. 5, No. 19 (October 1 , 2012)
  How Nakhchivan’s special status came to be
• Vol. 5, No. 20 (October 15 , 2012)
  Armenian over-reaching has cost Yerevan its foreign "protectors"
• Vol. 5, No. 21 (November 1 , 2012)
  Contaminated rivers as main threat to Caspian ecology
• Vol. 5, No. 22 (November 15 , 2012)
  Iranian-Armenian hydro station harms Azerbaijan, experts say
• Vol. 5, No. 23 (December 1 , 2012)
  Saving lake Urmia: Challenges for Azerbaijan
• Vol. 5, No. 24 (December 15 , 2012)
  When one man can do more than an army: Remembering Heydar Aliyev
• Vol. 6, No. 1-2 (January 15 , 2013)
  2012 was "very successful" for Azerbaijan and 2013 will be more so, President Aliyev says
• Vol. 6, No. 3 (February 1 , 2013)
  Armenia’s plan for an airport in the occupied territories violates international law, undermines the peace process, and offends memory of Khojaly victims
• Vol. 6, No. 4 (February 15 , 2013)
  Baku expands program for Azerbaijanis to study abroad
• Vol. 6, No. 5 (February 28 , 2013)
  Approaching "red lines" on the Karabakh conflict
• Vol. 6, No. 6-7 (April 1 , 2013)
  Azerbaijani Diaspora in Russia increasingly important
• Vol. 6, No. 8 (April 15 , 2013)
  Changing borders a dangerous idea, Azerbaijan reminds Iran
• Vol. 6, No. 9-10 (May 15 , 2013)
  Azerbaijan’s Russian Diaspora organization marks twentieth anniversary
• Vol. 6, No. 11 (June 1 , 2013)
  Oil shale revolution shakes up Caspian pipeline calculations
• Vol. 6, No. 12 (June 15 , 2013)
  Stalin forcibly deported Azerbaijanis from Armenia
• Vol. 6, No. 13 (July 1 , 2013)
  Azerbaijan’s trade with Asian countries expands
• Vol. 6, No. 14 (July 15 , 2013)
  Naval competition on the Caspian heating up
• Vol. 6, No. 15-16 (August 15 , 2013)
  Ninety-nine percent of Azerbaijanis say Turkey is their country’s biggest friend