I guess I should list my sources, to avoid a Stephen Ambrose (God rest his soul), or Doris Kearns Goodwin situation. I have no idea where I picked up a lot of this, but I know I was introduced to Azerbaijan and the whole Nagorno-Karabakh thing in Ryzsard Kapuscinski’s wonderful book Imperium. There is also a brief section on Azerbaijan in Robert Kaplan’s The Ends of the Earth. But other than that, a lot of this information comes from random articles which I trip over in, say, Policy Review, or The Atlantic Monthly. And then I scribble stuff down on my “Azerbaijan index card” for safe keeping.
Tomorrow, I’ll talk about the high hopes Azerbaijan had for its “oil boom”.
