An interview with Arthur Lenk, Ambassador  Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Azerbaijan...

Think tanks played a key role in the development of cooperation between Western Europe and the United States after World War II, not only surviving as incubators of new ideas but places in which people from the various countries involved could meet and discuss the nature of their relationships.  Now, many people believe that think tanks in Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan, despite all the differences in the epistemic communities in these three countries could play a similar role in promoting a strategic partnership among them. On the one hand, none of these countries has t...

After Moscow on April 28 provided the documentation Baku said was required to permit the transit of Russian equipment needed for construction of a nuclear power station in Iran, the Azerbaijani authorities two days later, after reviewing this paperwork, allowed the train carrying it to pass into Iran, thus ending what had been an increasingly heated month-long standoff among the three countries. But even though each of them said the incident was closed, their declarations did little to end speculation that more was involved in the Azerbaijan action than met the eye, a measure...

After it recovered its independence in 1991, Azerbaijan faced the challenge of defining almost from scratch policies on an enormous range of foreign policy issues.  Indeed, the range of these issues is so broad that sometimes makes it difficult to see the basic contours of Baku's approach to the world.  But now, nearly 17 years after this process began, it is possible to identify the five key vectors of Azerbaijan's foreign policy.                The overriding foreign and domestic policy challenge facing Azerbaijan is the res...