Azerbaijan Since Independence
Author : Svante E. Cornell
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Azerbaijan
ISBN : 0765630044
Author : Svante E. Cornell
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Azerbaijan
ISBN : 0765630044
Author : Gennadiĭ Illarionovich Chufrin
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199250202
Published in association with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Author : Thomas Goltz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317476247
In its first years as an independent state, Azerbaijan was a prime example of post-Soviet chaos - beset by coups and civil strife and astride an ethnic, political and religious divide. Author Goltz was detoured in Baku in mid-1991 and decided to stay, this diary is the record of his experiences.
Author : Svante E. Cornell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1317476204
Azerbaijan, a small post-Soviet republic located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, has outsized importance becaus of its strategic location at the corssroads of Europe and Asia, its oil resources, and
Author : Farid Shafiyev
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 802464391X
Being located between the Black and Caspian seas, Azerbaijan has always been the juncture of Eurasia—with a traditional reputation as a crossroads between the north-south and east-west transport corridors—and the traditional ground for competition between numerous regional and global players, using both soft and hard power. With its vast hydrocarbon energy reserves, Azerbaijan is a country of particular importance in the South Caucasus. The region’s complex geopolitics have immensely influenced Azerbaijan’s foreign policy strategy. With the dissolution of the USSR, Azerbaijan, as a new state with fragile security, found itself in a complicated situation surrounded by regional powers like Iran, Russia, and Turkey. The book is built around several major foreign policy issues faced by the Republic of Azerbaijan since it regained its independence in 1991. These major issues include the conflict with Armenia and related matters, the relationship with the West, as well as the complexities arising from its relationship with Russia and its ties to Muslim countries, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Author : Audrey L. Altstadt
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0817991832
The first comprehensive account of Azerbaijan's rich and tumultuous history up to the present time.
Author : Aida Huseynova
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253019494
This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and little-known history of music in Azerbaijan against the vivid backdrop of cultural life under Soviet influence, which paradoxically both encouraged and repressed the evolution of national musics and post-Soviet independence. Inspired by their neighbors to the East and West, Azerbaijani musicians enjoyed a period of remarkable creativity, composing and performing the first opera and the first ballet in the Muslim East, establishing the region's first Opera and Ballet Theater and Conservatory of Music, and discovering ways to merge the modal lyricism of mugham with the rhythmic dynamics of jazz. Drawing on previously unstudied archives, letters, and documents as well as her experience as an Azerbaijani musician and educator, Huseynova shows how Azerbaijani musical development was not a product of Soviet cultural policies but rather grew from and reflected deep and complex cultural processes.
Author : Jamil Hasanli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317366174
As revolution swept over Russia and empires collapsed in the final days of World War I, Azerbaijan and neighbouring Georgia and Armenia proclaimed their independence in May 1918. During the ensuing two years of struggle for independence, military endgames, and treaty negotiations, the diplomatic representatives of Azerbaijan struggled to gain international recognition and favourable resolution of the territorial sovereignty of the country. This brief but eventful episode came to an end when the Red Army entered Baku in late April 1920. Drawing on archival documents from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia, United States, France, and Great Britain, the accomplished historian, Jamil Hasanli, has produced a comprehensive and meticulously documented account of this little-known period. He narrates the tumultuous path of the short-lived Azerbaijani state toward winning international recognition and reconstructs a vivid image of the Azeri political elite’s quest for nationhood after the collapse of the Russian colonial system, with a particular focus on the liberation of Baku from Bolshevik factions, relations with regional neighbours, and the arduous road to recognition of Azerbaijan’s independence by the Paris Peace Conference. Providing a valuable insight into the past of the South Caucasus region and the dynamics of the post-World War I era, this book will be an essential addition to scholars and students of Central Asian Studies and the Caucasus, History, Foreign Policy and Political Studies.
Author : Brenda Shaffer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262264686
The Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they have retained their ethnic identity. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of an independent Azerbaijan have only served to reinforce their collective identity. In Borders and Brethren, Brenda Shaffer examines trends in Azerbaijani collective identity from the period of the Islamic Revolution in Iran through the Soviet breakup and the beginnings of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1979-2000). Challenging the mainstream view in contemporary Iranian studies, Shaffer argues that a distinctive Azerbaijani identity exists in Iran and that Azerbaijani ethnicity must be a part of studies of Iranian society and assessments of regime stability in Iran. She analyzes how Azerbaijanis have maintained their identity and how that identity has assumed different forms in the former Soviet Union and Iran. In addition to contributing to the study of ethnic identity, the book reveals the dilemmas of ethnic politics in Iran.
Author : Svante E. Cornell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137600063
This book frames the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in the context of European and international security. It is the first book to focus on the politics of the conflict rather than the dispute itself. Since their emergence twenty years ago, this and other “frozen conflicts” of Eurasia have been affected by transformations in European security, and many ways absorbed into an ever fiercer geopolitical struggle for influence. The wars in Georgia and Ukraine brought greater attention to some unresolved conflicts, but not to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. As the contributors to this volume argue, the conflict merits much greater European attention, for several reasons: it is on a path of escalation, existing mediation regimes are dysfunctional, and as both Georgia and Ukraine have showed, any outbreak of serious fighting will force the EU to respond. This book thus explains the interlocking interests of Russia, Turkey, Iran, the EU and United States in the conflict, and analyzes the negotiation process and the conflict’s international legal aspects.