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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 ...
Ph.D. in History. She is a former vice rector of Baku State University. Currently, she is a researcher at the Kennan Institute of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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In one of his articles, David Laitin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, describes an episode from his ...
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The screening of the film Mahsati, which was scheduled to be shown as part of the 16th International Film Festival held in Baku, was ...
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Shortly after the establishment of the USSR, the country undertook process of isolating the country from other imperialist states. ...
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In this final part, which is devoted to the image of Armenia and Armenians in history textbooks, I will examine Soviet-era textbooks. I
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After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, all the newly independent republics began working on new presentations of their national ...
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Azerbaijan, which borders four countries, has its longest border to the west with Armenia. The border between these two countries is ...
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Historical knowledge contributes positively to the development of our critical thinking and analytical skills. History also provides an
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In one of his speeches in May 2025, President of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, described the Battle of Chaldiran as a joint victory of
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The first attempts to study, scrutinize, and comparatively analyze secondary school textbooks in the social sciences—particularly ...
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The Image of Russia in Contemporary Azerbaijani History Textbooks Russia plays an undeniable role in both the socio-political life of ...
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One of the most pressing issues facing Azerbaijan in the 1990s after its independence was the need to reform the education sector. The ...
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Soviet historians’ first studies of the Stalinist mass repressions of the 1930s were published in the second half of the 1980s amid the
Atakhan Abilov
societyIn modern political and legal theory, the concept of the nation was for a long time explained primarily through such factors as ethnic origin, ...
Araz Baghirov
religionIn the first part of this article, I sought to demonstrate how religious Azerbaijani society is and in which direction the country’s religious ...
Tinay Mushdiyeva
societyIn my previous article, I noted that traditional academic epistemology focuses on epistemic success as its object of inquiry. I argued that, for ...
Atakhan Abilov
societyIn criminal justice proceedings, the accused person’s direct participation and the effective exercise of the right to defense constitute ...
Ural Hatemi
societyOn 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 ...
Araz Baghirov
religionIntroduction From time to time, reports appear in the national press claiming that Azerbaijanis rank among the “least religious peoples in the ...
Shalala Mammadova
societyThe 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 ...
BRI Political Studies Group
societyIn the summer of 2024, two researchers in Azerbaijan were arrested one after another. These were Iqbal Abilov, a former lecturer at Belarus State
Shalala Mammadova
societyShortly after the establishment of the USSR, the country undertook process of isolating the country from other imperialist states. Restrictions ...
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