РЕЦЕНЗИЯ НА КНИГУ: ТРУДЫ ИНСТИТУТА ПОСТСОВЕТСКИХ И МЕЖРЕГИОНАЛЬНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ / ОТВ. РЕД. Е.И. ПИВОВАР. ВЫП. 3: АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНОВЕДЕНИЕ. М.: РГГУ, 2020. 283 С.

Abstract

The review is devoted to a unique collective scientific work of Russian and Azerbaijani authors, whose pages reflect important issues of the history and modern political, socio-economic and cultural development of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani-Russian and Azerbaijani-Iranian relations, and Baku’s foreign policy in the context of integration processes in the post-Soviet space. The publication lists an overlook of six research papers and proceedings of the conferences “Humanitarian cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan: spiritual and historical traditions and present time” and “Humanitarian dimension of eurasian integration: history and outlooks”, organized by the Institute of post-Soviet and inter-Regional Studies of Russian State University for the Humanities. Following the principles of objectivity and a systematic approach, using a wide range of sources, many of which are first introduced into scientific circulation in Russian historiography, the authors of the reviewed issue identify the key features of the formation and functioning of the modern Azerbaijani state and its foreign policy priorities. This publication develops a new interdisciplinary field of scientific research – Azerbaijani studies, which is located at the intersection of historical, political, economic and cultural studies and offers a wide methodological tools for studying topical issues of history and modernity of the most important regional processes and trends in the framework of the South Caucasus, in the post-Soviet space and on the scale of Greater Eurasia.