11. Azerbaijan: Turning Over a New Leaf?
- Publication Date:
- 05-2004
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- International Crisis Group
- Abstract:
- Oil-rich Azerbaijan, which borders Iran, Turkey and Russia and is still scarred from its defeat by Armenia ten years ago, gives cause for both hope and concern. The October 2003 election of Ilham Aliyev to the presidency that his late-father, Heydar, had held almost from independence, highlighted the stark choices which now face the country. Its government is a carefully designed autocratic system, which the father and former Soviet-era politburo member began to construct in the late 1960 s, with heavy reliance on family and clan members, oil revenues and patronage.
- Topic:
- Development, Government, and Politics
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Iran, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Armenia, and Azerbaijan