{"id":108662,"date":"2002-10-29T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2002-10-29T21:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108662"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:23:44","slug":"azerbaijan-source-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108662","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan: Source Disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s wonderful book <em>Imperium<\/em>. There is also a brief section on Azerbaijan in Robert Kaplan&#8217;s <em>The Ends of the Earth<\/em>. 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 &#8220;Azerbaijan index card&#8221; for safe keeping. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll talk about the high hopes Azerbaijan had for its &#8220;oil boom&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108662\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108663,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108662\/revisions\/108663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}