In the grand, often sterile halls of international diplomacy, the 8th European Political Community (EPC) summit in Yerevan provided a moment of startling clarity. Addressing the assembly via video link, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan didn’t just speak of peace as a distant, aspirational concept. He spoke of it as a tangible, nine-month-old reality, which is currently being fueled by Azerbaijani diesel and lubricated by the transit of grain.

The shift in the South Caucasus since the landmark Joint Declaration signed in Washington last August is nothing short of a geopolitical tectonic shift. For decades, the region was defined by "frozen conflict" and zero-sum logic. Yet, as Aliyev noted, the past nine months have served as a masterclass in pragmatic reconciliation. Peace, it seems, is not merely the absence of gunfire; it is the presence of trade.

Since the Washington........

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