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On Mediocrity
For almost a year now, I’ve been doing something I’ve never done before – keeping a diary. Looking at the diary, I realized that my ...
A political philosopher and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pavia.
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For almost a year now, I’ve been doing something I’ve never done before – keeping a diary. Looking at the diary, I realized that my ...
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It is extremely difficult for political opposition to strengthen or even survive under authoritarian rule. In such situations, the ...
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Does the Azerbaijani government itself adhere to its own demand that everyone should refer to its administrative division? The ...
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Since the end of the second Karabakh war, many Azerbaijani officials, including the president himself, have declared multiple times ...
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Usually the main demand voiced during Azerbaijani public discussions of education is that more funds should be allocated from the state
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Those who propose radical (new), particularly progressive ideas frequently face criticism based on the proposition that the people or ...
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In many countries, including Azerbaijan, elections to legislative bodies are held according to a winner-take-all principle (a ...
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A ziyalı (roughly intellectual – ed.)[1] is obligated to create public discussions and give direction to existing discussions. ...
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The struggle against domestic violence should be political rather than cultural, because domestic violence is a political issue rather ...
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Anyone who accepts moral norms toward one person must apply them to all people, and therefore it is immoral to exclude any group of ...
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