>Others bet that outside pressure would persuade Azerbaijan to put on a friendly face. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Azerbaijan signed an agreement to provide much-needed natural gas to the European Union—a club that, in theory, puts human rights at the heart of its foreign policy. And in November, Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, will host the COP29 climate summit.
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>Defeating Armenia militarily means Mr Aliyev needs a new enemy. Few know this better than Mr Samadov, a doctoral student researching “authoritarianism and the logic of exclusion in Azerbaijan”. In a 2021 essay he described how the state demonises Armenians and domestic critics in parallel fashion: “The enemy, internal or external, must be eliminated.”
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>Others bet that outside pressure would persuade Azerbaijan to put on a friendly face. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Azerbaijan signed an agreement to provide much-needed natural gas to the European Union—a club that, in theory, puts human rights at the heart of its foreign policy. And in November, Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, will host the COP29 climate summit.
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>Defeating Armenia militarily means Mr Aliyev needs a new enemy. Few know this better than Mr Samadov, a doctoral student researching “authoritarianism and the logic of exclusion in Azerbaijan”. In a 2021 essay he described how the state demonises Armenians and domestic critics in parallel fashion: “The enemy, internal or external, must be eliminated.”