Azerbaijan
Netanyahu set to visit Azerbaijan
The announcement comes amidst growing reports of a trilateral alliance between the US, Israel, and Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaijan appears to be trying to position itself as a champion of the anti-colonial movement by criticising France’s colonial past and supporting independence movements in its overseas territories.
This week, we speak to political analyst and PhD candidate at Charles University in Prague Bahruz Samadov about the Baku Initiative Group, a group linked to the Azerbaijani government, and its anti-colonial conference, and how Azerbaijan appears to be appropriating anti-colonial movements for their own geopolitical and authoritarian ends.
Read more:
- Baku-linked group hosts conference on European colonialism at UN HQ
- Opinion | How Azerbaijan uses ‘anti-colonialism’ to authoritarian ends
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