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- Title
Azerbaijan's Foreign policy and Challenges for Energy Security.
- Authors
Ipek, Pinar
- Abstract
This article examines Azerbaijan's foreign policy by demonstrating the interplay between the oil-led development process and early post-independence regional conflicts that enforced a Western orientation in the country's foreign policy. It is argued that geopolitics continue to prevail in the strategic goals of Azerbaijan. However , the new challenges in the emerging framework of energy security, which extends beyond the revitalized geopolitical rivalries and preeminent concern over securing energy supplies, put Azerbaijan's foreign policy at a crossroads and require a new trans-Atlantic partnership to promote human security and to manage the risk entailed in the unpredictable policy environments of the Caspian region.
- Subjects
AZERBAIJAN; INTERNATIONAL relations; GEOPOLITICS; POWER resources; CONFIDENCE &; security building measures (International relations); AZERBAIJAN foreign relations
- Publication
Middle East Journal, 2009, Vol 63, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
0026-3141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3751/63.2.13