Özet:

Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, fifteen republics claimed their independence, as they had constituted the union, and took their places in the system as new members of the international arena.  The process, which began with independence, actually started very painful for many of these countries and they had to struggle many issues from economy to politics. Azerbaijan has been one of the countries that started the independence process with problems. With independence period, a political instability has been experienced in Azerbaijan. In addition to economic problems, the effects of the massacres, made by the Armenians, gave rise to public dissatisfaction towards the government so that long-running governments could not be established in Azerbaijan. The political instability of Azerbaijan changed by Haydar Aliyev and he remained in power for 10 years. With this political stability, a new era began in Azerbaijan and many important developments were experienced in many areas, especially in economics. With the elections, held in 2003, Ilham Aliyev took over the power from his father and led Azerbaijan to many important levels as basically following the policies, his father determined. In this abstract, the effects of long-running political stability, established by father-son Aliyev's power, on the development of Azerbaijan will be emphasized. Additionally, negative results, which are derived from political instability, will be analyzed, moreover, how the retrogressive condition, which is led by political instability in a country, might be reversed with political stability to be established, will be explained. In the following part, it will be mentioned that how the latter Aliyev tries to maximize the return of political stability in Azerbaijan as mainly following his father’s policies.

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