He is currently a contributing analyst for the Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor and Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program's Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst in Washington DC. His areas of expertise include security issues and conflict resolution in the post-Soviet space, Turkish foreign policy, and the foreign and national security policies of the South Caucasus states, with an emphasis on the domestic determinants of such policies. Zaur Shiriyev has published numerous articles and commentaries and co-edited The Geopolitical Scene of the Caucasus: A Decade of Perspectives (Istanbul; 2013) and Azerbaijan and the New Energy Geopolitics of Southeast Europe (Washington, DC; 2015).
