The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan by Ismayilov Murad

Author:Ismayilov, Murad
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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1. Apart from other related indicators, Israel has traditionally topped the list of Azerbaijan’s key trade partners over the past several years, reaching—with the bilateral trade turnover of US $1.357 billion—second place as of 1 July 2012. Azerbaijan, in turn, has been a stable leader among the Moslem and former Soviet Union states on the list of Israel’s trade partners. The country is among Israel’s key energy suppliers, indeed second only to Russia, and with Tel Aviv’s alleged role as Baku’s major supplier of high-tech hardware (including for the latter’s energy sector) and modern military equipment, the nature of strategic partnership the two have enjoyed—even though Azerbaijan’s importance for Israel is clearly not limited to the demands of the latter’s energy security alone, but is also a function of Tel-Aviv’s active efforts to counter the perceived Iranian threat, on the one hand, and enlist support of a friendly Moslem state amidst an unfriendly, predominantly Arab-Moslem, regional environment, on the other—falls rather squarely under the pattern of relations prevailing in Baku’s engagement with the West, one in which the former’s energy endowment is “traded” for the latter’s “recognition” and, ultimately, support in the security realm, particularly to prompt what Baku would view as a fair resolution to its long-standing conflict with Armenia. Indeed, Israeli arms supply to Azerbaijan dates back to the crucial years of the early 1990s when Baku was still involved in the active phase of its war with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, while the Jewish diaspora in the United States has grown instrumental over the last decade in Baku’s efforts to balance against the alleged sway Armenian lobby groups hold over the US government. For further detail on, and analysis of, the nature and evolving dynamics of relations between Azerbaijan and Israel, see, for example, Agayev (2014); Bourtman (2006); Murinson (2013); Perry (2012); Shiriyev (2012).

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