AZERBAIJAN–GEORGIA: STRATEGIC COOPERATION IN RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY

Abstract

Summary: Aga­inst the backd­rop of glo­bal cli­ma­te chan­ge, energy se­cu­rity con­cerns, and the pur­su­it of sus­tai­nab­le de­ve­lop­ment go­als, the tran­si­ti­on to­ward re­ne­wab­le energy so­ur­ces has ac­ce­le­ra­ted in re­cent ye­ars. The So­uth Cau­ca­sus re­gi­on, dis­tin­gu­is­hed by its rich na­tu­ral en­dow­ments and stra­te­gic lo­ca­ti­on, has al­so be­en af­fec­ted by this trans­for­ma­ti­on and is inc­rea­singly be­co­ming an ac­ti­ve par­ti­ci­pant in the pro­cess. Two co­unt­ri­es of the re­gi­on−Azer­bai­jan and Ge­or­gia−rank among tho­se pos­ses­sing subs­tan­ti­al re­ne­wab­le energy po­ten­ti­al. Ef­fec­ti­vely har­nes­sing this po­ten­ti­al, both sta­tes are re­gar­ded as co­unt­ri­es that ha­ve be­en suc­cess­fully imp­le­men­ting re­ne­wab­le energy po­li­ci­es.

The ar­tic­le aims to exa­mi­ne Azer­bai­jan–Ge­or­gia coo­pe­ra­ti­on in the fi­eld of re­ne­wab­le energy. Wit­hin the sco­pe of the study, the le­gis­la­ti­ve fra­me­work go­ver­ning re­ne­wab­le energy coo­pe­ra­ti­on, as well as imp­le­men­ted and plan­ned pro­jects, we­re analy­zed thro­ugh do­cu­ment re­vi­ew and com­pa­ra­ti­ve analy­sis met­hods. Dra­wing on both pri­mary and se­con­dary so­ur­ces, the sci­en­ti­fic no­velty of the re­se­arch li­es in analy­zing bi­la­te­ral coo­pe­ra­ti­on in re­ne­wab­le energy thro­ugh the theo­re­ti­cal lens of li­be­ral ins­ti­tu­tio­na­lism and pro­vi­ding a comp­re­hen­si­ve pers­pec­ti­ve on the im­pacts of this coo­pe­ra­ti­on on both bi­la­te­ral and re­gio­nal col­la­bo­ra­ti­on.