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The Modern History of Azerbaijan in the Interpretation of Politicians: Ayaz Mutallibov – Part I
Ayaz Mutallibov was an initiator, organizer, or executor of a number of significant processes that took place in the political life of ...
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Azerbaijan’s Contemporary History in the Interpretations of Politicians: Abdurrahman Vazirov – Part II
The Government, the Opposition, and the Intelligentsia (The link to the first part of the article is at the end of this text) Vazirov ...
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Modern Azerbaijani History in the Interpretation of Politicians: Abdulrahman Vezirov (Part-1)
Memoirs and recollections, sources of personal origin, are often considered unreliable and subjective accounts of the past. In such ...
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The Story of How a Warrior on Horseback Saved Motherland: An Analysis of Militarized Masculinity and National Identity in Azerbaijani History Textbooks
“Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries for so many millions of people, not so much to ...
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The Contemporary History of Azerbaijan in the Interpretation of Politicians: Heydar Aliyev
Every event that takes place around us becomes, after a certain period of time, an object of historical inquiry. The study, analysis, ...
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Why Must the Poor Do the Worst Jobs? How About We Share That Labor?
When we talk about bad work, what kinds of work come to your mind? Cleaning? Packaging and food delivery? Construction? Garbage ...
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Urban Residents and Newcomers: Migration from Azerbaijani Provinces to Cities after the Second World War
In Azerbaijan, discussions periodically emerge on social media regarding the relations between urban residents and newcomers, or ...
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Transnational Repression and International Law: An Analysis of the Azerbaijani Experience
One of the significant trends observed in contemporary international relations and human rights discourse is the expansion of ...
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Science and Education in Azerbaijan: Are We Advancing or Regressing?
In January of this year, President Ilham Aliyev gave an interview to local television channels. Responding to the journalist’s ...
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Women’s Political Participation in Azerbaijan: Problems and Necessary Steps
Political participation is the set of activities that citizens carry out in order to influence or support the government and political ...
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A 50,000-strong troll army in Azerbaijan
In an interview conducted by journalist and political prisoner Ulviyya Ali, political prisoner and politician Akif Gurbanov emphasized ...
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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 ...
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The Unbearable Cost of Azerbaijan’s Territorial Integrity
On September 19, 2023, the Azerbaijani army launched a full-scale attack on the defensive positions of the de facto republic of ...
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The Pathologization of Difference in Authoritarian Systems
Authoritarian systems do not operate solely through repression, mass arrests, and coercive force. They also seek to prescribe ...
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Double Standards in EU’s Annual Human Rights Assessments: The Cases of Azerbaijan and Belarus Compared
Two different vocabularies for EU policy The European Union’s annual human rights report is more than a list of abuses. Its wording ...
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Ilham Aliyev’s Suspicion of Independent Media
In February 2026, while attending the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, President Ilham Aliyev responded to Emin ...
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Azerbaijan’s 25 Years in the Council of Europe
Azerbaijan’s admission to the Council of Europe in 2001 was not merely an act of joining an international organization, it was also a ...
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A Comparative Analysis of Anti-bullying Policies in Azerbaijan and Developed Countries
Bullying in schools is a widespread problem with significant psychological, social, and educational consequences. It undermines ...
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Between Turkey and Israel: Azerbaijan’s Strategic Dilemma and a Potential Opening for Moscow
Since 1992, Azerbaijan and Türkiye have been close allies. Yet relations between the two countries have occasionally experienced ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Child Labor in Azerbaijan: Policy and Practice
Children’s rights are a crucial part of international human rights law. These rights outline how children must be treated and protected
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