Dr. Ramin Ahmadoghlu is a Visiting Research Scholar at Emory University. His research interest concentrates on religion and politics in general, and, specifically, the interactions of religion, secularism, and nationalism in the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. In addition, he is interested in examining the interactions of Shia and Sunni Islam with politics, …
Namig Abbasov is a Ph.D. candidate (Political Science) in the School of Politics and Global Studies Department at Arizona State University and a research fellow at Global Human Rights Hub. He holds MA in International Relations and Dialogue Studies from Keele University, United Kingdom and BA in European Studies from Qafqaz University, Azerbaijan. His research …
Dr. Shahriyar Mukhtarov is an associate professor and the Head of the Department of Economics, at Baku Engineering University, Azerbaijan. Dr. Mukhtarov received his M.A. from Marmara University in 2012 and completed his Ph.D. in Banking at Marmara University in 2016. The holder of several national and international awards, Dr. Mukhtarov has realized various research projects …
Bakhtiyar Aslanov is currently the Project Coordinator of the Berghof Foundation’s multi-year project “Memory and Alternative History in Azerbaijan” as well as an independent researcher in Peace studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow (2014). He has conducted quantitative …
Dr. Yashar Ehtibarli is holding Ph.D. degree in International law and his research interests include different areas of international law such as Peoples’ Right to Self Determination, Use of Force in International Law and International Migration Law. He has taken part in several international projects on research and capacity building in higher education. Dr. Ehtibarli …
Ayaz Zeynalov holds an Assistant Professor position at the University of Economics Prague, in the Czech Republic. Ayaz Zeynalov has published his research papers in peer-reviewed journals, including World Development, Resource Policy, International Economics, Economic Policy, and Tourism Economics. He has reviewed manuscripts for journals such as the Economic System, Economic Modelling, Resource Policy, etc. …
Shaig Nabiyev is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Space Science at Arizona State University and a co-founder of CASPRI. He is an astronomer and his research directions are planetary science and small bodies of the Solar System. In the 2016-2017 years, he has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for …
Shahriyar Aliyev is a director of the Energy and Regional Security Program at CASPRI. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Charles University in Prague, Department of Financial and Capital Markets. His main research interest covers monetary and fiscal policy, economic growth, political economy, and environmental sustainability. Currently, he is working on a Ph.D. …
Ceyhun Mahmudlu is a founder and a President of Caspian Research Institute (CASPRI). He is also a visiting professor at Cornell University, Department of Government. His research interest covers energy geopolitics, regional security, peace and conflict resolution, cyber security, nationalism, and Islam in the greater Caspian region. Ceyhun Mahmudlu is a co-editor of Azerbaijani and Beyond: …
Dr. Sofie Bedford is Vice President at CASPRI and responsible for the coordination of publications. She is an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University and has also recently been teaching East European Studies at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Her Ph.D. project …