FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 26.07.2021 “… Spend billions on the others, but keep your people hungry, so as to make it possible to govern them…” The Azerbaijani FB community continues to simmer in a cocktail of ‘cognitive dissonance’, unable to trust the state administration or the motives of other associated regional players. At a season when there should be signs of jubilation, such as on the occasion of the Gurban meat distribution, citizens are still plagued by the insistent evidence of redirection of national funds.  Statistics collated underline continuing evidence of corruption,...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 04.06.2020 The leading topics these days are the protest action of students in front of the Ministry of Education and arrest of the 18 year old Rustam Ismayilbeyli, increased pressure on Ilkin Rustamzade, the clash between the passengers of the metro and the policemen, corruption scandals of bureaucrats, the illness of the ex-political prisoner and the candidate in the recent local election Mehman Huseynov, speech of the president before the refugees, the Karabagh issue, commemorate the 4th of June 1993- the coup d’etats, or colonel rebellion, which overthrew democratically...


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EU-Azerbaijan: Driven by strategic importance, lacking value-based impact Heinrich Boell Stiftung, Nov. 2013 by Leila Alieva The EU-Azerbaijan ENP agreement signed in 2006 was met with substantial enthusiasm from society and was followed by official statements on the commitment to integration in the EU. At that point, the three states of the South Caucasus were equally eager to become one step closer to the European club. The civil society of Azerbaijan proved its devotion to the ideas of European integration by initiating a national campaign in 2006 to include "European aspirations" in the text...


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The founder and the current president of CNIS is Dr. Leila Alieva. Dr. Alieva was also the former Deputy Director (1991-1994) and Director (1994-1996) of Baku-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. She has held fellowships at Harvard University (1993-1994), Woodrow Wilson Center (Kennan Institute) (1995), UC Berkeley (2000), and SAIS (Johns Hopkins University) (2001). Dr. Alieva was an advisor to the President of EBRD, as well as to the leading oil companies in Baku. She also was a National Coordinator of the Human Development Report for UNDP (1997) and served on the board of Open...


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