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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 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 ...
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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 ...
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The Turkification of Azerbaijan: Review of Turkish Historiography
Shortly after the establishment of the USSR, the country undertook process of isolating the country from other imperialist states. ...
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Predatory Journals in the Academic Environment of Azerbaijan (Part 2)
About a year ago I carried out a monitoring of articles that Azerbaijani authors published in foreign predatory journals. For this ...
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Parliamentary Elections in Azerbaijan: Disproportionate Results, Wasted Votes, Winners Not Chosen by the Majority
Elections are one of the most important institutions of democracy. They ensure citizens’ control over state governance. However, the ...
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Why Bayırşəhər is More than Architectural Heritage
Since October 2024, persistent information about the upcoming demolition of the Bayırşəhər (the Outer City) neighborhood, namely the ...
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Armenia and Armenians in Soviet-Era Textbooks (Part Three)
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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Epistemology for Non-Ideal Conditions
Lately, I have noticed something that attracts my attention both in conversations with others and in my own inner reflections: When it ...
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