New Monograph by Jamil Hasanli Published in the West

The well-known multinational publishing Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group issued the monograph by the Azerbaijani scientist Jamil Hasanli, Foreign Policy of the Republic of Azerbaijan: The Difficult Road to Western Integration, 1918-1920. The book is part of a series of research at Johns Hopkins University.

The book presents the Western audience a scholar research on the history of the APR and can be considered the most fundamental study of this period in the history of Azerbaijan.

The book explored questions of creation of APR, its steps to integrate into the civilized world, diplomatic activity between the West and the East.

The author used rare archival documents from the Archives of Azerbaijan, Russia, the US, France, Britain and other countries.

On the basis of scientific analysis Hasanli shows that the integration of Western values in Azerbaijan began 100 years ago: the first foreign policy moves, diplomatic struggle for the liberation of Baku, relations with northern neighbors, dramatic steps of the Azerbaijan delegation at the Paris Peace Conference and the de facto recognition of the republic by the Supreme Council of Versailles.

The author shows that the APR appeared in the situation that arose in hard diplomatic struggle in the aftermath of the First World War.

The proclamation of APR and its activities in terms of attempts to recreate the Russian Empire within the boundaries of 1914 demanded great diplomatic skills from the government leaders of Azerbaijan.

The reader is given extensive information about the founders and leaders of the APR: Mammad Emin Rasulzadeh, Alimardan Bey Topchibashev, Fatali Khan Khoyski, Nasib Bey Yusifbekov, Hasan Bey Agayev, Mamed Hasan Hajinsky and others. -06D--