Azerbaijan – US relations based on the Energy Card

... territory controlled by the Russians, and would be an important channel of access for advanced economies and energy consumers to the oil-rich Central Asian republics” [1] .The US has strong economic, political and strategic interests in Azerbaijan, because ... ... influence of these two countries. Azerbaijan and Georgia are important to the US and Europe as transport countries of Caspian gas and oil. In the future, Azerbaijan may also be an important transit state, transporting landlocked Central Asian energy resources ...