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Azerbaijan’s Energy Policy and its Implications for Russian Security

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The Politics of Caspian Oil

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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a self-contained integrated economic unit fragmented into fifteen.1 The high level of interdependence among the republics was not perceived as a factor that would enhance mutual trust and foster cooperation. Rather, economic interdependence was and still is considered by the new states as a constraint on their newly acquired sovereignty. Ethnic conflicts and an urgency to break free from Moscow’s yoke impelled some of the new republics to pursue the goal of complete independence,2 if that is possible at all. Azerbaijan was among them.

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  1. Avedis Bedros Hadjian
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  1. Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Bülent Gökay (Coordinator of European Studies, Lecturer in International Relations) (Coordinator of European Studies, Lecturer in International Relations)

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Hadjian, A.B. (2001). Azerbaijan’s Energy Policy and its Implications for Russian Security. In: Gökay, B. (eds) The Politics of Caspian Oil. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977637_4

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