The Center for Black Sea Security Studies (Sofia) and the Center for National and International Studies ( Baku) from the 10th of November to the 13th of November in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, jointly held the conference“ Energy Security in the Wider Black Sea region- National and Allied approaches”. The conference was supported by the NATO science division as a Advanced Research Workshop- ARW and attracted participants from 13 member states and partners of NATO. The workshop was directed to the research of the crucial aspects of the energy security and the role of NATO. The conference...
The situation with democratic freedom in Azerbaijan, especially a freedom of assembly was the main subject of the conference on “ Role of Freedom of Assembly in Civic Activism, Political Pluralism and European Integration”, held by the Center for National and International Studies with the financial support of the World Alliance for Citizen Participation CIVICUS (South Africa), at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on November 1, 2011. The conference brought together prominent human rights activists, lawyers and defenders, political parties, NGOs, journalists and international organizations. The event...
The formation of the borders of Post Soviet Azerbaijan was taking place on the basis of the borders which existed in the Soviet Union. Although Azerbaijan had the borders with the Soviet republics, these borders were of provisional nature, without any entry-resistant engineering constructions. Colonial policy of re-settlements of Tsarist Russia and Stalin’s policy of deportation were important factors in post-soviet conflicts over borders.
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The Absheron Oil History Trail (Open Air Oil History Museum) Exploration of the Development Potentialof the Absheron Peninsula
(Balakhany, Surakhany, Sabunchu). The research was registered at the Copyright Agency of the Azerbaijan Republic under number 05/c-354-05, dated 04.08.2005.
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The beginning of year 2011 was marked by the crisis of the last bastion of non-democratic regimes – the only geographical region, which by the words of Larry Diamond, historically had never experienced democracy .
The fall or crisis of autocratic and hybrid regimes of the North Africa raised many questions and dilemmas, which international community and the EU will face from now on. The significance of timing of the external reaction to the quickly and dramatically developing events in Libya, has stressed necessity of preparedness of the EU to the possible similar cases In the future....
Edited by Leila Alieva, Democratic values in the history of Azerbaijan is the latest publication of the Center for National and International Studies.
It details the proceedings of eight round tables which the Centre for National and International Studies completed in 2008-2009 in the regions of Azerbaijan.These conferences were conducted in Sheki, Ganja, Salyan, Shirvan, Guba, Masalli, Balakan and Barda in connection with the 90th anniversary of the first democratic republic of Azerbaijan - the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic - of 1918-1920. (more...)