The Corridor Changing Eurasia: Connectivity, Sovereignty, and the Strategic Awakening of the Trans-Caspian Region

Eric Rudenshiold

Eric Rudenshiold is Research Director and Senior Fellow at the Caspian Policy Center as well as a graduate lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He previously served under U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden as National Security Council Director for Central Asia. The views expressed in this essay are his own.

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Baku Dialogues

Spring 2026

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