CONTENTS POLITICS Gorkhmaz Askerov Oil and Gas Strategy of A Landlocked Country: Case of Azerbaijan Gursel Ismayilov Ethnic Conflicts and Their Causes INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE R. A. Radjabov, F. R. Radjabov Formation and Development of Oil-mechanical Engineering in Azerbaijan in 1920s-1950s Levon Mamaladze History of Hybridization and Crossing in Livestock Farming (in Russian) Levon Mamaladze…
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EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITOR Hamlet Isaxanli Dr. Professor, Khazar University, Azerbaijan EDITORIAL BOARD Turaj Atabaki Professor, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, NL Jamil Hasanli Dr. Professor, Baku State University, Azerbaijan Evan Siegel Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center, USA Michael G. Smith Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University, Department of History, USA Tadeusz Swietochowski Ph.D. Professor,…
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CONTENTS EDUCATION Ray McGhee Organizational Culture in Private Higher Education: A Case Study of a New Private University in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan Isaxan Isayev Factors Related to Selection at State and Private Universities: Positive and Negative Sides of Centralization HISTORY Jamil Hasanli South Azerbaijan, 1945: Turning Point of History – 21 Azer Turaj Atabaki Narrating the…
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CONTENTS HISTORY Gursel Ismayilov Japanese Recognition of the USSR in 1925 POLITICS Ertan Efegil, Ayse Mine Olcay, Huseyn Kidik An Essay on the Cooperation between Turkmenistan and International and Regional Organizations Nasib Nassibli The Qarbagh Problem: Old Stubbornness and New Hopes Rufat Kerimov War in Chechnya and the Search for Enemy: A Well-Tried Russian Remedy…
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CONTENTS EDUCATION Alan N. Crawford A Study of In-service Education and Classroom Practices in Azerbaijan: into the XXI century POLITICS Rufat Kerimov The Caucasus as a Catalyst of the West-East Relations LITERATURE Mammad Dadashzadeh Ethnographic Information Concerning Azerbaijan in the Dede Qorqud Epos
ENEMY OUTSIDE OR WITHIN US: CURE FOR RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN EUROPE
Nazila Isgandarova (Wilfrid Laurier Univeristy, Waterloo, Canada) INTRODUCTION Islamaphobia is not a new phenomenon, but it has become an integral part of Muslim identity in Europe. Islamophobia is a response to a perceived sociotropic threat, especially in terms of social and political identity and economic insecurity, rather than a personal threat or fear from Islam….
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Saadat Novruzova (Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan) 1. RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE PERIOD OF ANTIC CIVILIZATION In the ancient world, in the epoch when statehood and politico-legal ideas began to evolve, all myths heavily overwhelmed culture and life of people. The myths were primarily reflected in the concepts of world rule, truth and justice, necessity…
LE STATUT JURIDIQUE DE LA MER CASPIENNE
Fuad Humbatov (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) INTRODUCTION Les incertitudes juridiques sur le statut juridique de la mer Caspienne sont anciennes. Est-elle une mer, un lac ou un fleuve?1 La question n’a jamais été résolue. Cela crée une situation spéciale que les études doctrinales sur le régime juridique de la mer Caspienne ne sont pas…
EMERGING HIGHER EDUCATION IN AZERBAIJAN
Richard Dennis (East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, US) 1. INTRODUCTION Let me begin by laying out some important matters that I am not going to go into in this paper. I am not going to say much about the positive advances made in the past few years in other areas of higher education reform…
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CONTENTS Hamlet Isxanli From Editor Jean Aubin Les Ambassades Portugaises la Cour de Chah Isma’il Jean-Louis BACQUÉ – GRAMMONT Considerations Sur Divers Aspects de Chah Isma’il et de la Politique Bert G. FRAGNER Shah Ismail’s fermans and sanads: Tradition and Reform in Persophone Administration and Chancellery Affairs Yusuf HALACOÕLU Osmanlí Devletìnìn Doõu Rolìtìkasí ve Åah…