MULTIPOLARITY IS KEY: ASSESSING AZERBAIJAN’S FOREIGN POLICY

2021-12-07 12:06:00    CESD

This paper seeks to outline how Azerbaijan should manage the numerous foreign policy challenges it faces due to its strategic location, wealth in resources, neighbors and surrounding conflicts. As a small state, Baku should seek to balance interests and pursue a path of multipolarity, without however forfeiting a strong stance towards governments that threaten its status quo. Russia, Turkey, Iran, Israel and the West all have their interests and Azerbaijan has to become a pawn in the hands of the powerful. The resolution of the “frozen conflict” over Nagorno-Karabakh would mark a great step in the right direction, providing Baku with more leverage. The economic power of Azerbaijan gives the South Caucasian Republic a unique asset and allows Baku to play a balancing role regarding conflict prevention and conflict solution in this region which is often described as a geopolitical chessboard. Download Full Paper Here

CESD SURVEY; IS EU TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE EFFECTIVELY MANAGED IN AZERBAIJAN?

Estonian Center for Eastern Partnership released survey results conducted in all EaP countries including Azerbaijan. CESD was responsible for preparing Azerbaijani part of the report. The purpose of the survey was to assess how effectively the countries of the Eastern Partnership manage technical assistance rendered by the EU. This purpose was divided into the three objectives, which cover broadly the stages of provision of the EU assistance to an Eastern partner country. The research team presented the first aggregated survey findings to a seminar “Effective management of the EU assistance by recipient governments of Eastern Partnership countries” in June 2012 in Tbilisi, where the representatives of EaP governments, the EU and individual experts reflected on survey results against the background of experience accumulated under the ENPI since 2007, new policy challenges (AA, DCFTA) and the related new assistance tools such as CIB, as well as the upcoming changes to the Union assistance framework.

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