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 ...

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. ...

The concept of security dilemma has been widely applied to ethnic conflicts in former Yugoslavia and the post-Soviet space. This paper argues that for both methodological clarity and policy formation, we should ...

This article will attempt to shed light on the question of whether the South Caucasus is a region, and whether the nature of this regionalism is sufficiently established I to serve as the starting point of broader ...

Meanwhile, we are able to look back on twenty years of independence of the three South Caucasian states. However, there is no other region of the former Soviet Union in which the emergence of state sovereignty was connected ...

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 ...