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Elnura Jivazada

Elnura Jivazada, an independent translator. She studied International Relations at Baku State University as well as Political Science and Eastern European History at Eichstätt and Mainz Universities, respectively.


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Atakhan Abilov

Civic Nation and Ethnic Identity in the Context of Azerbaijan

In modern political and legal theory, the concept of the nation was for a long time explained primarily through such factors as ethnic origin, ...

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Araz Baghirov

The Religious Landscape in Azerbaijan Part II: Why Are We Becoming More Religious?

In the first part of this article, I sought to demonstrate how religious Azerbaijani society is and in which direction the country’s religious ...

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Tinay Mushdiyeva

Epistemology for Non-Ideal Conditions. Part 2

In my previous article, I noted that traditional academic epistemology focuses on epistemic success as its object of inquiry. I argued that, for ...

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Shalala Mammadova

The Experience of Intercultural Exchange: Migrant Germans and local Azerbaijanis

In one of his articles, David Laitin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, describes an episode from his childhood ...

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Atakhan Abilov

Proceedings in Absentia: A Procedural-Legal Institution or a Political Instrument

In criminal justice proceedings, the accused person’s direct participation and the effective exercise of the right to defense constitute ...

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Ural Hatemi

The Reasons for the Latest Protests in Iran and the Processes That Led to Today

On 28 December 2025, protests that began with the closure of shops in Tehran’s bazaar due to the rise in currency prices quickly spread across ...

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Araz Baghirov

The Religious Landscape in Azerbaijan Part I: How Religious Are We?

Introduction From time to time, reports appear in the national press claiming that Azerbaijanis rank among the “least religious peoples in the ...

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Shalala Mammadova

Mahsati’s Ganja, or the Echo of the Cultural Legacy of Colonialism

The screening of the film Mahsati, which was scheduled to be shown as part of the 16th International Film Festival held in Baku, was banned by ...

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BRI Political Studies Group

Dreyfus, Myasoyedov, Abilov and Samadov or the act of “betraying” the state

In the summer of 2024, two researchers in Azerbaijan were arrested one after another. These were Iqbal Abilov, a former lecturer at Belarus State

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