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Incapacity, Endowment, and Ambivalence: Deciphering Azerbaijan’s Regional Leadership Strategy

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The ability to produce an accurate empirical account of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy has often been made difficult by a series of contradictions between mutually opposing behaviors and characteristics. This chapter examines how national decisionmakers have sought to reconcile these confounding factors in order to pursue a position of leadership or preeminence within and beyond the South Caucasus and Black Sea/Caspian region. The theoretical approach rejects the conventional paradigm of geostrategic competition among external powers as a driving force in local politics in favor of a global south perspective, which recognizes Azerbaijan as both a developing and post-socialist state. It applies an extended typology of regional powers that seeks to capture wider variations in forms of hegemony that exist within the international order. The model is applied to the empirical record in order to examine how Azerbaijani elites have chosen to navigate between enablers and constraints in their pursuit of regional leadership.

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Strakes, J.E. (2016). Incapacity, Endowment, and Ambivalence: Deciphering Azerbaijan’s Regional Leadership Strategy. In: Braveboy-Wagner, J. (eds) Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45226-9_11

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