Vol. 4 | No. 3 | Spring 2021 BAKU DIALOGUES 3 BAKU DIALOGUES POLICY PERSPECTIVES ON THE SILK ROAD REGION Vol. 4 | No. 3 | Spring 2021 Te Second Karabakh War: Further Refections Investment Attractiveness Along the Silk Road Seeing Beyond Victory Laurence Broers Development or Regression? Stanislas Pritchin Beijing’s Long Road to the Gulf Region Fuad Shahbazov From Struggle to Permanent Failure Azer Babayev Energy and the Silk Road Region: Geostrategic Considerations Hydrocarbon Energy Complexes Robert M. Cutler SGC’s Strategic Benefts Vitaly Baylarbayov SGC and the Geopolitics of Climate Change Morena Skalamera Oil Pipelines in the Silk Road Region Rodrigo Labardini Te Ties Tat Bind: Te South Caucasus and its Immediate Neighborhood Trilateral Cooperation Between Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Georgia Richard Weitz Ukraine’s Strategic Relations with the South Caucasus Taras Kuzio