Azerbaijan’s role in regional energy security

A country's energy security reflects its ability to have continuing access to sufficient supplies of energy, oil and gas, either from its sources on its own territory or abroad, to allow it to develop.  But for producing countries, like Russia and Azerbaijan, it also involves using its exports or its geographical location to promote its particular geopolitical interests, sometimes by denying other exporters the opportunity to make independent decisions as to the path their supplies will pass to reach ultimate consumers or even to the political arrangements they may make as to their domestic political system or broader foreign policy goals ...