Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey: Advancing the Military Dimension of the Trilateral Partnership

• Autores: Azad Garibov
• Localización: Europe en formation: les cahiers du fédéralisme, ISSN-e 0154-9928, Nº. 385, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Central Asia and the South Caucasus: The EU’s Involvement and Regional Perspectives), págs. 37-44
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The development and consolidation of the energy cooperation between Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey (AGT) throughout the 1990s and 2000s marked the beginning of a trilateral cooperation that has since developed into a strategic partnership in various fields among the three countries. The trilateral partnership started to be institutionalized in the beginning of the 2010s in the form of annual meetings of leaders and foreign ministers of the participant countries. While initially the cooperation was mainly focused on military preparedness to protect the energy-transport infrastructure in emergency cases, it gradually expanded to encompass other fields. The policy paper examines the key issues of what is the rationale behind, obstacles before and opportunities ahead of the trilateral Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey defense partnership. It offers possible further steps to be made in order to utilize the opportunities provided by the trilateral partnership