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100 years after: the countries of the South Caucasus from the declaration of independence till 2018

Published: 28 May 2018
In order to commemorate 100 years anniversary since the declaration of independence of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, the Heinrich Boell Foundation presents analytical articles that on the one hand, reflect on the main foreign and internal priorities of the first republics and on the other hand, analyze what is the impact of the short-lived experiences of statehood on the democratic political culture of the South Caucasus.


Articles


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Журналистика в изгнании – новая реальность для азербайджанских независимых медиа

Published: 28 February 2025
На фоне все более сужающегося пространства свободы слова и ужесточившихся репрессий против независимых медиа в Азербайджане единственным способом продолжать свою деятельность становится эмиграция и работа в изгнании. Но делать это для них – совершенно новая реальность, непонятная и пугающая. 
By Lora Reissner
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Romance and Practice: What the passing of Georgian "foreign agents law" means for Azerbaijanis

Published: 1 October 2024
On June 3, the law "On Transparency of Foreign Influence", often referred to as the "foreign agents law", was signed into force in Georgia. Numerous critics both inside the country and in the West hold that the law will decimate civil society and bring about the beginning of the end of Georgian democracy. Their neighbors in the region are no less concerned about the situation than the Georgians themselves.
By Lora Reissner

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Masculinities in the South Caucasus

Published: 22 July 2024
“Masculinities in the South Caucasus: Forms, Hierarchies, and Challenges” follows an interdisciplinary, multi-format approach, containing academic articles, autobiographical stories, oral histories, and illustrations. In their original contributions, sixteen authors from/based in the South Caucasus discuss masculinities to diverse social phenomena, including, but not limited to, clothing, fatherhood, sports, the military, criminal practices, and sexual identity. 
By Davit Gabunia, Henry Myrttinen , Lasha Kavtaradze, Durna Safarova and Armen Ohanyan
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Salt Traces

Published: 25 January 2024
This research is a journey of four women who grew up on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Our idea is to start the research project with the Caspian Sea and create a community of artists and researchers with whom we could expand into exploring the impact of climate change on other water bodies through stories of food and people.
By Salt Traces
Photo on the cover: Shahidlyar Khiyabany (Alley of Martyrs), Baku, 2015. Photo by Sevil Huseynova

A Tool Of Propaganda: Thirty Years Of Memory Politics In Independent Azerbaijan

Published: 10 May 2023
The article analyses the main trends of the memory politics in contemporary Azerbaijan. The author focuses on the specifics of the memorialisation of the events and heroes of the 'First Republic' (1918-1920); the events of January 1990 as the most important site of memory; the personality cult of the previous president Heydar Aliyev; and the memory politics with regard to the Karabakh conflict, including the commemoration of the Second Karabakh War (autumn 2020) unfolding in front of our eyes.
By Sevil Huseynova

Beyond the Karabakh Conflict: The Story of Village Exchange

Published: 7 February 2014
In the second half of the 1980s, with the beginning of the Armenian-Azer­baijani military escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani residents of Kyzyl-Shafag, a village in northern Armenia, and Armenian residents of Kerkenj, a village in central Azerbaijan, met through their own initiative to negotiate a peaceful exchange of their villages.

South Caucasus: Spaces. Histories. People.

Published: 24 June 2006
This volume contains a collection of papers presenting the individual research of young social scientists from Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. The projects were carried out in 2005, within the framework of a scholarship programme run by the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.


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