The collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of Communist ideas paved the way for an Islamic
revival in Azerbaijan. Being one of the most secular Muslim republics of the Soviet Union,
Azerbaijan is facing a dilemma ...
Mammadova, Lala; Valiyev, Anar(Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2020)
This study explores the progress of the 14-year old Bologna
reform in major Azerbaijani public universities. The focus of
the study was to investigate the level of student involvement
in the transformation process ...
The crisis in Ukraine that began with the Euromaidan movement and flight of President
Viktor Yanukovych put the Azerbaijani government in an uncomfortable position. For
the last few years, Baku has been building good ...
Since gaining independence twenty-five years ago,Azerbaijan has pursued
three major foreign policy goals:resolution of the Karabakh conflict based
on the territorial integrity of the country; preservation of its own ...
Discussions of post-Soviet countries’ policies towards Russia have
been largely dominated by two mainstream neorealist approaches
on states’ alignment choices – balancing and bandwagoning.
While the first pattern entails ...
Baku, the capital of the Azerbaijan Republic, was one of the major industrial cities in the Soviet Union. In
contrast, the post-Soviet development of Baku has witnessed a major reconstruction with grandiose construction ...
Valiyev, Anar(Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2017)
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Baku has undergone a tremendous transformation. In this context, demographic trends for the last decade have been quite favorable toward the development of Baku, with a constant ...
Driven by an increased interest in enhancing connectivity, great powers are in the competition to implement their transportation projects. Meanwhile, small states located in the crossroad of the transportation routes are ...
This study examines the trust in political institutions in Azerbaijan using the data from the
survey Caucasus Barometer (CB) conducted by the Caucasus Research Resource Center
(CRRC) in 2012e2013. Two hypotheses e cultural ...
Cities competed for the honor of hosting the various sport events
throughout the twentieth century. Within that context, development conected with sports was regarded as part of a strategy which cities followed
to ...
Very little research has been undertaken to study the role of soft power in international relations. As one of the fathers of this concept, Nye states that soft power refers to the capability of an entity, usually but not ...
Mineralogy, gold mineralization and metal contents of the Gadir deposit have been investigated during current research in order to determine the geological conditions, temporal and spatial relationship with certain ...
This article examines monumental mosques and particularly those that are built to be and function
more as monuments than as places for worship. We consider the role of monumentality in
religious landscapes by way of ...
This article examines the consequences of the
Nagorno-Karabakh war for Armenia and Azerbaijan from
an Azerbaijani perspective, showing how the conflict
prevents democratization and internal development
while blocking ...
For years the scholars of urban studies ignored the issue of existence of growth machines in post Communist cities. Nevertheless, this phenomenon has existed in post-Communist space, especially in
the former Soviet region. ...
Gentrification is being increasingly discussed as a driver of urban
change globally, including in the former Soviet Union. However, the
translation of the gentrification phenomenon into post-Soviet cities
like Baku ...
This paper presents a case study of urban boosterism in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and
Turkmenistan – three resource-rich states around the Caspian Sea. Boosterist projects
are typically justified through the injunction of, ...
Valiyev, Anar(Quality Press of the Southern Tier Inc., 2009)
The August 2008 war between Georgia and Russia affected many of the
Commonwealth of Independent States’ domestic politics, including Azerbaijan’s. The war
significantly changed Azerbaijanis’ perceptions of the democratic ...