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Chris Smith

Chris Smith is a journalist, photographer and editor who has worked in the middle east, southern Africa, the Caucasus and the United States. His website is here.

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Baku-Ceyhan: the geopolitics of oil

The oil pipeline connecting Azerbaijan and Turkey via Georgia is operating after years of protest. Chris Smith asks whether it will heal or intensify the conflicts of the southern Caucasus.