This paper examines underlying reasons behind communal violence and civil war and attempts to explain the role of political entrepreneurs in escalating communal violence to civil war. The author tests his theory against the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenians and Azer…
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The purpose of the quantitative descriptive survey research study was to examine the relationship between the application of a performance measurement system and modernization of a public organization. Study outcomes, based on the analysis of the answers of 682 participants, rev…
Qurama for chamber ensemble , was written in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. Qurama is an ancient handicraft of Azerbaijan, a kind of patchwork made of clo…
The Greater Caucasus (GC), which form the northern margin of the Arabia-Eurasia collision between the Black and Caspian Seas and represent the main locus of shortening within the central collision, are an active, young range (∼5 million years old) and so represent a locality to …
From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan to speak Russian. Even with changes since independence …
This dissertation examines Azerbaijani women poet-musicians who perform as professional bards called aşiq. The tradition, which arose in the 16th century and continues into the present, describes a traveling bard who sings epic and poetry while playing the musical instrument saz…
Keywords: Caucasus states, Russia, foreign policy analysis, weak state The key features of foreign policy formulation and execution in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are selected in an attempt to reveal the sources of foreign policy-behavior of new, post-Soviet (and in effect p…
Nucleotide sequences of the control region of the mitochondrial DNA of invasive mosquitofish from the highly contaminated industrial city of Sumgayit, Azerbaijan were compared to invasive mosquitofish from pristine sites in Europe and Azerbaijan and to native North American popu…
In 1921, Nagorno-Karabakh was transferred from Armenia to Azerbaijan by the Soviet authorities to keep ongoing tensions between the two neighbors, ensuring lasting Russian presence in the region as a peace-keeper. In 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous region of Azerbaijan wit…
The end of the Cold War and globalisation quintessentially characterize the international environment in the 21st century. The replacement of the bipolar international system by a unipolar one, with the United States as the only superpower, upon the dissolution of the Soviet Uni…
The South Caucasus states of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have shared, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a common strategic environment. To survive as independent states in a turbulent region bordered by Russia, Turkey and Iran, each state has chosen to align themsel…
This dissertation examines the settlement of Russian religious dissenters (Dukhobors, Molokans, and Subbotniks) in Transcaucasia from 1830 to 1890. During this period, tsarist officials promoted the relocation of sectarians (sektanty) to Transcaucasia--to the exclusion of other …
The opening of the oil-rich Caspian Sea region after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, presents major opportunities for the future development of world energy supplies. Development of mineral resources in the Caspian will also strengthen the economies of the three new…
Social determinants of health present significant barriers to utilization of maternal health services in transitional countries. This dissertation study examined associations between household autonomy and utilization of prenatal services among women of reproductive age in Armen…
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh has been one of the bloodiest and most intractable conflicts in the post-Soviet space. Although there have been a number of recently published important works regarding the conflict they have almost exclusively dealt with e…
This study explores varying outcomes of energy cooperation, defined as diplomatic relations, bilateral trade, and investment in oil and natural gas. Tests of theories pertinent to energy security - broadly speaking, realism, liberalism, and domestic politics—reveal that they alo…
Much of the social capital literature focuses on unambiguous social situations where actors share generalized trust or interpersonal trust. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in northwest Azerbaijan, this thesis focuses instead on distrust and the negotiation of conflicting interpret…
The present quantitative study explored the relationship between the application of the performance measurement system and the ability of the decision-makers of a government revenue agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan to detect the events that could harm the operations of the e…
Due to increasing investigations and studies of the Kura-Araxes cultural communities, our information about this enigmatic archaeological culture has increased in many respects. Its interactions and regional variations in terms of cultural materials have been analyzed by many sc…