Farklılıktan Stratejik İşbirliğine Azerbaycan-İsrail İlişkileri
Azerbaijan-Israel Relations: From Diversity to Strategic Cooperation

Summary/Abstract: The ever increasing rapprochement between two countries as diverse as Azerbaijan and Israel in terms of ethnicity, religion, culture and economy has attracted the attention of many specialists who ponder over the future of Caucasia, the Middle East and global politics. The same development added to the existing confusion when it appeared to occur at a time when Iran and Azerbaijan, both of which share several similarities, have slowly begun to drift away from each other. With that a critical question as to whether this aforementioned rapprochement between a Muslim and Jewish dominated country could be attributed to mainly Israel’s attempt to win over Azerbaijan’s approval for letting her to use the latter’s territory for a potential attack towards Iran. Yet, a study over the historical settings of the Azerbaijani-Israeli relations as well as on the subject of strategy-security, diplomacy and economy, all of which appear to have determined the primary attributes of those relations, reveal that the more rational causes of the said rapprochement should be looked in these areas.

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