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Şimşir, Sebahattin. "Azerbaycanlıların Türkiye'de siyasi ve kültürel faaliyetleri, 1920-1991." Ankara : Azerbaycan Kültür Derneği, 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/51854077.html.
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Ahmadoghlu, Ramin. "Nationalism, Secularism, and Islam: Azerbaijani Turks in Azerbaijan and Iran." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468337156.
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Kupcuk, Yeliz. "Azerbaijan'." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607202/index.pdf.
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After the Soviet dissolution, the newly independent post-Soviet state of
Azerbaijan intensified its efforts at developing its relations with the United States.
Based on the analysis of the Azerbaijan&ndashU.S. relations between1991-2006, the thesis tries to answer which factors could account for the existing political problems between these countries, given that both countries have a common interest in deepening their cooperation concerning the Caspian energy resources as well as the fight against international terrorism. This thesis argues that although both countries have many interests in common, they are unable to deepen their level of cooperation because of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem which, since it breaches the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, is that state&rsquo
s main priority. The thesis has four main chapters: after a general overview of the evolution of Azerbaijan&rsquo
s foreign policy in the post-Soviet era and the U.S. policies towards the Caucasus, I examine Azerbaijan&rsquo
s cooperation with the U.S. in the field of energy, the Nagorno-Karabakh problem in Azerbaijan&rsquo
s relations with the U.S., and Azerbaijan&rsquo
s cooperation with the U.S. in the fight against international terrorism. In this thesis I focus on these three interests of Azerbaijan in its relations with the U.S. because in analyzing this country&rsquo
s foreign policy these are vital issues that include economic development, territorial integrity and its global political role concerning security.
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Gurbanov, Nijat Rizvan ogli, and L. M. Shymanovska-Dianych. "THE ECONOMIC CONTEXT OF AZERBAIJAN." Thesis, Полтава, ПУЕТ, 2020. http://dspace.puet.edu.ua/handle/123456789/9203.
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Joyce-Stringer, Shanae. "Azerbaijan: Oil-Rich Yet War-Torn." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/765.
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Yusubova, Aysel. "Democratization of the Republic of Azerbaijan : a study about the impact of socioeconomic development on democratization of Azerbaijan." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27909.
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Democratization has been studied by several scholars, who have argued about significance of various factors for democratization of a certain country. One of these scholars was Seymour Martin Lipset and he claimed that there is a linear correlation between democracy and socioeconomic development. Thus, the aim of this study is to test Lipset’s hypothesis in the case of Azerbaijan, which is an oil rich authoritarian country. The study was conducted with the help of mixed analysis methods (i.e. combination of qualitative and quantitative methods) and a case study research design. To measure socioeconomic development’s impact on democratization of Azerbaijan, some socioeconomic indicators were chosen in this study, such as economic growth, income inequality, poverty and unemployment rates in the country. Results of the empirical data analysis showed that, socioeconomic development has a positive correlation with democratization and therefore, Lipset’s hypothesis is plausible in the case of Azerbaijan. In addition, socioeconomic development has a great impact on democratization of the country, i.e. of Azerbaijan.Demokratisering är ett ämne som har studerats av flera forskare under flera år. Några av dessa forskare har hävdat att det finns diverse faktorer som kan ha inverkan på demokratiseringen av ett land. En av dessa forskare var Seymour Martin Lipset, som hävdade att det finns en positiv korrelation mellan demokrati och socioekonomisk utveckling. Därmed, syftet med denna studie är att testa Lipsets hypotes om socioekonomiska utvecklingens samband med demokratin på fallet av Azerbajdzjan. Azerbajdzjan är ett oljerik autoritär land som har upplevt hög ekonomisk tillväxt. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av blandade analysmetoder (dvs. kombinationen av kvalitativ och kvantitativ analysmetod) och en fallstudie forskningsdesign. För att genomföra studien, några socioekonomisk utveckling indikatorer har valts, såsom ekonomiskt tillväxt, inkomstskillnader, fattigdoms- och arbetslöshetsnivån i landet. Resultatet av det empiriska data analysen visade att, Lipsets hypotes stämmer i fallet av Azerbajdzjan och det finns ett positivt samband mellan demokratisering och socioekonomisk utveckling. Därmed, socioekonomisk utveckling har en stor inverkan på demokratiseringen av landet, dvs. av Azerbajdzjan.
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Bashirov, Galib. "US Foreign Policy toward Azerbaijan, 1991-2015." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3191.
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This dissertation aims to investigate the sources of United States (US) foreign policy toward Azerbaijan by examining the relative impact of domestic, geostrategic and structural factors in explaining US foreign policy toward the country. Azerbaijan is one of the newly independent states that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite its small size, the country’s strategic location, vast oil and natural gas reserves, and its conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno- Karabakh region elevated its importance and made Azerbaijan the center of interest for great powers. As the sole superpower after the end of the Cold War, the US has largely followed a unilateral foreign policy agenda. US foreign policy toward the South Caucasus in general, and Azerbaijan in particular, has been marked by inconsistencies, and by a lack of coordination and an unwillingness to take the initiative in crucial issue areas. Most importantly, experts have observed several important shifts in US policy toward Azerbaijan. These shifts can be conceptualized as critical junctures as they represent fundamental changes in the orientation of US policy. The dissertation is focused on these critical junctures as they relate to four main issue areas: the political economy of oil, the security partnership, economic reforms, and human rights. Why did the US disengage from Caspian energy issues after the successful completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline? Why did the US lose its commitment to Azerbaijani security, including the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict? Why did the US grow unhappy about the investment climate in Azerbaijan in the 2000s? Why did the Obama administration decide to shift to a “human rights policy” toward Baku, despite two decades of neglect of such issues by the Clinton and Bush Administrations? This dissertation follows a chronological format and analyzes the sources of US foreign policy towards Azerbaijan in three time periods: 1991-2001, 2002-2007, and 2008-2015.
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Ihar, Zsuzsanna Dominika. "Natural Nation: Cultivating a Post-Extractive Azerbaijan." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24952.
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The past decade has witnessed the proliferation of numerous ‘greening projects’ across Azerbaijan, aimed at transforming environments vandalised by hydrocarbon exploration and industrial agriculture into biodiverse havens, zones of conservation, and sustainable residential developments. This dissertation attends to the mobilisation of remediation and renaturalisation technologies for the purposes of nation-making and the creation of post-extractive environments.
To this end, drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS) and relational ethnography, I extend the concept of ecologized biopolitics to examine how the cultivation of seed orchards, mass-tree planting campaigns, urban greening projects, and biodiversity monitoring work in tandem with processes of militarisation, securitisation, and urban gentrification. In addition, I offer an extended theorisation of environmental remediation as foremost a political practice, allowing the Azeri state and select members of its populace to mobilise a range of material practices and affective logics around nationhood, land, and belonging in the attempted realisation of a 'clean', 'green', and 'cosmopolitan' future.
Within the scope of my research, I use cultivation as a touchstone for several interweaving processes: technologically produced 'natural' environments, the obfuscation of militarism via environmental greening, and the collapsing of boundaries between the nation and nature in the general imaginary. Despite the role that cultivation has in nation- and nature-making, I propose that it may also foster the creation of nonsovereign imaginaries, where environments resistant to co-optation by nationalist agenda, and the mandates of the state, are dreamt up and put into practice. By returning to its root kwelə-, meaning to 'move around, sojourn, dwell', cultivation transforms into a practice of wandering – moving through feral communities, ruderal allotments, and pockets of messy, experimental, and unlikely co-existence.
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Ricapito, Francesco <1991>. "Analysis and perspectives of tourism in Azerbaijan." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6804.
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L’Azerbaigian è il paese del Caucaso Meridionale che più si è sviluppato negli ultimi vent’anni e questo principalmente grazie alle rendite del settore petrolifero. Per contrastare questa dipendenza il governo sta cercando di diversificare l’economia nazionale e uno dei settori su cui ha deciso di investire è il turismo. Questa ricerca si propone di capire quale sia stato lo sviluppo del settore in Azerbaigian negli ultimi anni, di fare un quadro generale della situazione attuale e infine di capire quale siano le possibilità di crescita. Il punto di partenza della tesi è un’approfondimento generale sulla storia del turismo e sulla sua definizione, sia ad un livello accademico che internazionale, a questo segue una presentazione generale del paese, dalle sue principali caratteristiche geografiche fino al sistema di governo. Si parla poi nello specifico del settore turistico in Azerbaigian, analizzandone le statistiche più importanti, discutendo del ruolo del governo nella promozione del paese e elencando i punti più critici oggi esistenti. Due capitoli sono dedicati ad un’analisi del materiale promozionale ed informativo sull’Azerbaigian, in particolare guide turistiche e siti internet. I restanti capitoli sono dedicati a stabilire il potenziale turistico del paese, analizzando una ad una prima le principali mete turistiche e poi quelle secondarie e meno conosciute, per terminare con un approfondimento su altri aspetti culturali che possono aiutare lo sviluppo del turismo.
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Levytskyi, Anton <1993>. "Key dimensions of contemporary Italy-Azerbaijan relations." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/10615.
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Italy is Azerbaijan’s key trade partner, while Azerbaijan plays an important role in satisfying Italy’s needs in oil and gas. This results in a strong partnership between the countries which has lasted for over two decades and is experiencing continuous reinforcement.
This thesis is based on the premise that the nature of contemporary Italy-Azerbaijan relations needs to be examined in order to define how both countries can deal with current political and economic challenges through co-operation. It consists of three chapters, each dedicated to a specific dimension of contemporary Italy-Azerbaijan relations: political, economic and cultural.
The first chapter focuses on the history and legal grounds of Italy-Azerbaijan relations, the role of Azerbaijan in ensuring energy security of Italy, Azerbaijan’s lobbying practices in the EU and Italy’s position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The second chapter examines the general dynamics and future prospects of Italy-Azerbaijan trade relations, focusing specifically on energy, agriculture and promotion of country brands (“Made in Italy” and “Made in Azerbaijan”).
The third chapter is dedicated to the peculiarities of cultural ties between Italy and Azerbaijan, examining specific organizations, projects and events that promote Italian culture in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani culture in Italy.
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Abizade, Nihad <1998>. "Waste management in Azerbaijan and future developments." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21698.
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Waste management has an important place in sustainable development. Waste management aims to see waste as a resource, not as a garbage. It foresees studies to prevent waste before it occurs, and to reduce it if it cannot be prevented. It aims to reuse and, if possible, recycle the resulting waste. It aims to gain energy from these wastes before disposal, which is the last stage. While an environmental gain is achieved by reducing the amount of waste to be generated with this waste policy, economic gains are obtained with energy and savings (with reuse, recycling and energy recovery activities) that provide social gains in terms of all living things and the continuity of the world. It successfully implements waste management in the world, especially in European Countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands.
In developed and developing countries including Azerbaijan, it is very important to process waste, study and optimize the impact on the environment, using of waste disposal technology, technological and environmental assessment of waste, recycling, the possibility of using it as raw material. The constant growth of the world's population and, as a result, the spontaneous or deliberate release of waste into the environment makes their assessment and complex processing even more urgent. If the waste is not treated properly, if the proper landfill technology is not applied, the infections that occur during the decay process will destroy living organisms. Unfortunately, I must say that the lack of ecological culture, which is currently accumulated in the environment in Azerbaijan, is obvious. However, a strategic action plan has been in place since 2008. From the point of view of solving such problems, the assessment of waste, including municipal waste, is a very important area. Because it is known that waste management is a new field in Azerbaijan, and if properly organized, Azerbaijan will have a share in the raw materials market of the recycling business.
The theoretical basis of the research will be the materials of local and foreign literature, scientific articles, scientific conferences and symposiums on modern waste management. In addition, it should be noted that the writing of the thesis will take into account the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on industrial and domestic waste and the decrees of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on improving the environment. Municipal wastes generated in public facilities such as households, municipalities, commercial establishments and public catering establishments are the object of research. The subject is the correct assessment of waste from a technological and environmental point of view, the creation of raw materials for the recycling business, the study of processing processes from an economic and social point of view, the study of priority areas. Since the analysis of the dissertation is of a research nature, it will be carried out on the basis of a systematic approach and comparison method by studying certain statistical indicators and using comparisons of world experience in this field. The aim of this study is to reveal all aspects of waste management practices in Azerbaijan. Ways of waste generation, sources of formation, negative impact on the environment will be studied in a comprehensive way, and the forecast of possible adverse events will be analyzed. The state of waste processing in Azerbaijan will be studied, technological, economic and ecological assessment of world experience will be studied and priority areas will be developed. The research question of the thesis is the following: Are there appropriate waste management implementations in Azerbaijan and in which level are these implementations in comparison to world practices?
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Mutallimov, Turan. "Wind load effect on storage tanks in Azerbaijan." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/23576/.
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Oil storage tanks play a significant role in social and economic development in Azerbaijan where is known as an oil producer country; however, there have been various cases of wind and earthquake destruction. The effect of wind disturbance on dynamic responses is analyzed, and the role of storage ratio and seismic waveform on dynamic responses under wind-earthquake activity is investigated further. The results show that the wind disruption effect has a significant impact on the dynamic responses of liquid storage tanks, especially in the empty state. When the liquid storage level is high, traditional oil storage tanks are easily destroyed by the action of a strong wind. Wind interference effect should be considered in the design and implementation of oil storage tanks, while shock absorption and strengthening steps for oil storage tanks under wind-strong earthquakes should be taken.
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Sadikhov, Elchin <1998>. "Environmental policies in Azerbaijan within sustainable development framework." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21693.
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Sustainable development and its relationship with the environment
1.1 The concept of sustainable development and its historical development
1.2 The scope of sustainable development
1.3 Strategy, aims, objectives and criticisms of sustainable development
1.4 Relationship between sustainable development and environment
Chapter 2. Comprehensive study of economic mechanisms and methods of modern sustainable environmental development in Azerbaijan
2.1. Economic methods in the regulation of sustainable environmental development in Azerbaijan
2.2. Programs and projects implemented by international organizations to ensure environmental development in the Republic of Azerbaijan
2.3. Systematic analysis of sustainable environmental development management
Chapter 3. Evaluation of green economy and projects in terms of sustainable development in Azerbaijan
3.1 Green economy analysis in Azerbaijan
3.2 State mechanism of regulation of sustainable ecological development and development perspectives
3.3 Evaluation of projects designed to promote sustainable and economic Development in Azerbaijan
3.3.1 Socio-Economic Development of the Republic of Azerbaijan 2004-2018 State Project
3.3.2 Azerbaijan 2020: Looking Forward Development Project
3.3.3 State Project of Social and Economic Development of Regions in Azerbaijan 2019-2023
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Sadikhov, Elchin <1998>. "Environmental policies in Azerbaijan within sustainable development framework." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21694.
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Sustainable development and its relationship with the environment
1.1 The concept of sustainable development and its historical development
1.2 The scope of sustainable development
1.3 Strategy, aims, objectives and criticisms of sustainable development
1.4 Relationship between sustainable development and environment
Chapter 2. Comprehensive study of economic mechanisms and methods of modern sustainable environmental development in Azerbaijan
2.1. Economic methods in the regulation of sustainable environmental development in Azerbaijan
2.2. Programs and projects implemented by international organizations to ensure environmental development in the Republic of Azerbaijan
2.3. Systematic analysis of sustainable environmental development management
Chapter 3. Evaluation of green economy and projects in terms of sustainable development in Azerbaijan
3.1 Green economy analysis in Azerbaijan
3.2 State mechanism of regulation of sustainable ecological development and development perspectives
3.3 Evaluation of projects designed to promote sustainable and economic Development in Azerbaijan
3.3.1 Socio-Economic Development of the Republic of Azerbaijan 2004-2018 State Project
3.3.2 Azerbaijan 2020: Looking Forward Development Project
3.3.3 State Project of Social and Economic Development of Regions in Azerbaijan 2019-2023
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Clark, James Dee. "The history of the Iranian Province of Azerbaijan, 1848-1914 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Galip, Hilal. "The Determinants Of Life Satisfaction In Post-soviet Azerbaijan." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609411/index.pdf.
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THE DETERMINANTS OF LIFE SATISFACTION
IN
POST-SOVIET AZERBAIJAN
Galip, Hilal
MSc., Department of Sociology
Supervisor: Dr. Adnan Akçay September 2007, 99 pages The study aims to investigate main determinants of life satisfaction in newly independent country, Azerbaijan. Taking into consideration of local and cultural characteristics of the region, this research will give the opportunity for making cross-cultural analysis to understand subjective well-being of people living in the country in transition. Moreover, it provides deeper interpretation of daily experiences of people in different fields of life compared to Soviet period. In the survey, 1030 households were selected according to multistage cluster sampling and face to face interviews were conducted with those families. In addition, fifty in-depth interviews were applied to people who are coming from different social backgrounds. All macro societal changes influences subjective well-being of the Azerbaijani people and the further analysis of data will help to taking picture of the society and individuals in a closer perspective. Within this framework, this paper attempts to figure out the quality of life in Azerbaijan from the eyes of Azerbaijani people.
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Aliyev, Elbay. "Azerbaijan-turkish Relations (1992-2012): A Foreign Policy Account." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614488/index.pdf.
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This study aims to examine the foreign policy of Azerbaijan toward Turkey in a
historical perspective on the one hand and to analyze foreign policy formations
during the Abulfaz Elchibey, Heydar Aliyev and Ilham Aliyev periods on the other.
The thesis argues that One nation, two states principle does not have a validity in
dictating the bilateral relations, instead a realist engagement is being favored by
Azerbaijan with an emphasis on national interest. As a result, it is asserted that
Azerbaijan&rsquos foreign policy remains in a cautious and consistent manner toward Turkey.
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L'Estrange-Fawcett, L. "The struggle for Persia : The Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234297.
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Costa, Matteo. "Resource energy efficiency measures for retail sector in Azerbaijan." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264251.
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The thesis work is part of a larger project financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and awarded by RINA Consulting S.p.A.. Azeri Retail will receive the loan from EBRD in order to refurbish its six new acquisitions in Baku, Azerbaijan. Azeri Retail considers the current Fresco format store a good technological and structural level, therefore Azeri Retail would like to replicate this state also for the new acquisitions. The thesis objective is to understand and analyse the current energy efficiency state and consequently propose some resource efficiency measures in order to replicate this new format for the new acquisitions to have a lower carbon footprint compared to the existing supermarkets belonging to the same brand. The thesis project is an energy audit comprising analysis of historical data, site visit to current Azeri Retail’s stores and consequent proposal of energy saving measures to be applied to the new acquisitions. In order to do this, three case studies have been developed: ATL, Project and REM. The first step has been the literature review about the energy utilization and carbon footprint of the retails sector, past energy audits, current and future policy framework in Azerbaijan. During this phase, it turned out that Azerbaijan doesn’t have a dedicated law for energy efficiency and therefore the construction phase doesn’t consider energy efficiency a primary target. Furthermore, in average the refrigerators represent the 40% of the total energy consumption of the supermarket. The site visit in Baku highlighted huge differences between the two brands’ buildings owned by Azeri Retail: Fresco brand belongs to high structural and technological level supermarkets, while Sebet doesn’t have any insulation on the envelope and the technical equipment is rather old. Microsoft Excel have been used in order to create the tool to perform the calculations. The thermal losses considered are the transmission losses, due to the building envelope, and the ventilation losses, due to the temperature difference between the exhaust indoor air and outdoor air. The internal gains are included in the model, in particular occupancy and solar loads. Furthermore, every case study considers different technical equipment according to what it is representing. All three built case studies refer to the geometry of the Fresco 2 building, since the comparison is more valuable if the buildings considered have similar geometry and activity inside. The ultimate aim of the modelling phase is to achieve good savings through measures in the REM case, since it is supposed to represent a useful list of saving measures to carry out during the actual refurbishment of the new stores. The measures proposed are: refurbishment of the envelope, purchase of a heat recovery heat exchanger, the exploitation of daylight through solar tubes and installation of LED bulbs, the refurbishment of cold rooms and the installation of double air curtains in the open refrigerated display cabinets. Great and positive results have been achieved during the modelling phase: ➢ Fresco stores can show very good structural properties and technological equipment and for this reason, each saving measures is additional to the already existing Fresco’s buildings status. ➢ Although Fresco stores’ buildings are better than Sebet stores’ ones and better than average practice in Azerbaijan, huge savings have been identified and this means that the new acquisitions could perform even better than the existing ones, mostly considering medium-low cost measures. The report closes with the overall comparison between the three case studies’ energy consumption and international benchmarks about food driven retails.
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Guliyev, Rashad <1998>. "The resource curse trap: rentierism and diversification in Azerbaijan." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20740.
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The concept of resource curse refers to the effects of the natural resource on the several spheres of a country. The main idea behind the resource curse theory is that, countries are resource rich develop less and slowly than those the resource deficit. Resource curse has been considered as an economic matter, but its affects other spheres equally. Decreasing institutional quality leads to corruption and strengthens authoritarian regimes. Dutch disease is separately investigated from the resource curse theory, indeed, real exchange rate appreciation and decline in non-abundant sectors are main indicators of Dutch disease problem. Therefore, Dutch disease examined as an economic symptom of resource curse. Azerbaijan is one of the resource abundant countries in pos-Soviet era. The longstanding dominance of the extractive industry in Azerbaijan has created a situation that can be understood with the help of the Dutch disease model. The oil boom period (2008–2011) brought high levels of mineral revenue. The chronic overvaluation of the national currency during the oil boom, coupled with an appreciation of real wages in the mining industry that outperformed other sectors—particularly the manufacturing sector—reflect the first two symptoms of the phenomenon. In Dutch disease economies, the increased share of the services sector in the output (the third symptom of the disease) during unrecovered manufacturing (the fourth symptom) leads to a major slowdown in industrial production—also known as de-industrialization. Azerbaijan has suffered from unregulated investments, untargeted policies, and opportunistic behavior that has meant that mineral revenue has been spent rather than saved or redirected toward rebuilding the country’s industrial heritage. This thesis evaluates the presence of Dutch disease in Azerbaijan using the available statistical data and through comparisons with other resource-rich countries.
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Williams, Jessica. "The Nagorno Karabakh Conflict problems and possibilities for political resolution /." Click here to access thesis, 2009. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2009/jessica_r_williams/williams_jessica_r_200901_MASS.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia Southern University, 2009."A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts." Directed by Emilia Powell. ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-62)
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Mustafayev, Emil. "The Application Of Ias/ifrs In Azerbaijan, A Comparative Approach." Thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611000/index.pdf.
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The purpose of the study is to illustrate to the management of entities and professionals who are against the application of IAS/IFRS in Azerbaijan why it is essential to adopt IAS/IFRS. The thesis aims to provide differences of current accounting policies and procedures applied by those entities from IAS/IFRS and justify the application of IAS/IFRS. The thesis provides benefits associated with the adoption of IFRS/IAS, and illustrates the problems that may be faced by the management of entities.
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Imranli-Lowe, Kamala. "The first Armenian Republic and its territorial conflicts with Azerbaijan." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4130/.
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The thesis, which is based on extensive archival materials, explores the origins of the on-going conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan by focusing on the emergence of the first Armenian Republic in 1918 and its territorial issues with Azerbaijan, in order to understand the factors which led to this conflict. It examines the background to the creation of the first Armenian Republic by researching the location of the ‘historical Armenian homeland’, the construction and reconstruction of the notion of the ‘Armenian homeland’, the aspects facilitating the way in which the ideology and strategy of the Armenian national movement developed, and the factors instrumental in the construction of the Armenian identity. The work provides a historical background to the Armenian claims to Garabagh and Nakhchyvan and analyses the ethnic, historical, economic, geographical and security arguments used by the first Armenian Republic to substantiate its vision of the territorial delimitation between Armenia and Azerbaijan with regard to these regions at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The thesis also considers the positions of the external powers involved in the South Caucasus vis-à-vis the Garabagh and Nakhchyvan issues and assesses the impact of their stance on the settlement of these conflicts.
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Petersen, Alexandros. "Integration in energy and transport amongst Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/532/.
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A limited process of integration has been occurring amongst the countries of Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. From the mid-1990s to 2008, integration amongst the three countries has occurred in the energy and transport sectors, but not in other sectors, such as security, politics or trade beyond energy and transport. In the energy sector, this integration can be explained through neo-liberal institutionalist theory. Integration in the transport sector occurs due to a mixture of elements from the neo-liberal institutionalist, security communities and neo-functionalist theories of integration. In both sectors, transnational extra-regional actors (TERAs) are the explanatory variable in the integration.
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Mammadov, Shamkhal. "The development of tourism sector in the republic of Azerbaijan." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2008. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/11760.
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Namazov, Ramil. "The role of nature-based tourism : The case of Azerbaijan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446115.
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Nature-based tourism is one of the most preferred types of tourism by tourists in recent years. This type of tourism also has a special effect on people's decisions. This paper analyzes the role of nature-based tourism in people's decisions and tourist preferences, as well as how companies meet these requirements. Taking into account the growing tourism potential in the Caucasus region, Azerbaijan has been selected as the main study area. In this paper, the qualitative method was applied as the main research design, and the data collection was obtained based on interviews. This study reveals the expectations of tourists from companies and the factors that influence their decisions. It also analyzes how companies meet the needs of tourists and the relationship between them.
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Heiß, Michael [Verfasser]. "Bird migration at the Besh Barmag bottleneck in Azerbaijan / Michael Heiß." Greifswald : Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1147805083/34.
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Sahin, Hakan. "Host country contracts in the energy sector : Azerbaijan-Turkey case study." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2013. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/324036/.
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The primary aim of this study is to examine the political risks, particularly of indirect expropriation in long-term energy investment contracts, focusing on stabilisation clauses and examining what driving force(s) influence host states to agree to insert such clauses in their host governmental contracts. The secondary aim of this work is to examine the political structure of Azerbaijan and Turkey and the guarantees available to foreign investors under their laws within those nations from a comparative perspective. The work dedicates particular attention to how effective internal factors in Azerbaijan and Turkey are in facilitating contractual stability in their respective energy investment projects. This study applies both comparative and empirical research methods, fieldwork and library based research. It seeks to provide a theoretical and comparative understanding of political regimes, foreign investment laws and constitutional guarantees and investment policies in Azerbaijan and Turkey. The work has provided that the driving forces behind why Azerbaijan and Turkey consented to insert stabilisation clauses in the host government agreements of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Project (BTC) can be attributed to each of these being in possession of: a weak bargaining position, weak formal and informal institutions, insufficient laws on foreign direct investment, absence of specific petroleum legislations and a keenness to promote investment and economic activities in their regional markets. It is imperative to lenders and insurers that the host state where the investment will be made is a stable environment. In order to be satisfied that this is the case and to future-proof themselves against risk, they require the insertion of stabilisation clauses in host government agreements. Credit-rating agencies assessments exercise influence over the terms to be agreed and, indeed over the investor’s decision whether to participate in a project. Further research into stabilisation clauses might invite the analysis of specific petroleum producing countries from different regions to better understand how internal and external factors are effective in providing stability. The transferability of the research findings could be further strengthened by surveying and interviewing more participants from petroleum companies, non-governmental organisations, law firms, financial institutions, political risk insurance providers, government bureaucrats and international academics.
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Sahin, Hakan. "Host country contracts in the energy sector: Azerbaijan-Turkey case study." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2013. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/324036/1/THESIS_Hakan_Sahin.pdf.
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The primary aim of this study is to examine the political risks, particularly of indirect expropriation in long-term energy investment contracts, focusing on stabilisation clauses and examining what driving force(s) influence host states to agree to insert such clauses in their host governmental contracts. The secondary aim of this work is to examine the political structure of Azerbaijan and Turkey and the guarantees available to foreign investors under their laws within those nations from a comparative perspective.
The work dedicates particular attention to how effective internal factors in Azerbaijan and Turkey are in facilitating contractual stability in their respective energy investment projects. This study applies both comparative and empirical research methods, fieldwork and library based research. It seeks to provide a theoretical and comparative understanding of political regimes, foreign investment laws and constitutional guarantees and investment policies in Azerbaijan and Turkey.
The work has provided that the driving forces behind why Azerbaijan and Turkey consented to insert stabilisation clauses in the host government agreements of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Project (BTC) can be attributed to each of these being in possession of: a weak bargaining position, weak formal and informal institutions, insufficient laws on foreign direct investment, absence of specific petroleum legislations and a keenness to promote investment and economic activities in their regional markets.
It is imperative to lenders and insurers that the host state where the investment will be made is a stable environment. In order to be satisfied that this is the case and to future-proof themselves against risk, they require the insertion of stabilisation clauses in host government agreements. Credit-rating agencies assessments exercise influence over the terms to be agreed and, indeed over the investor’s decision whether to participate in a project. Further research into stabilisation clauses might invite the analysis of specific petroleum producing countries from different regions to better understand how internal and external factors are effective in providing stability. The transferability of the research findings could be further strengthened by surveying and interviewing more participants from petroleum companies, non-governmental organisations, law firms, financial institutions, political risk insurance providers, government bureaucrats and international academics.
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Sanchez, James Joseph. "Soviet Azerbaijan and comparative institutional development in the Soviet Southern Tier." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184404.
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Institutional development is a process that can be analyzed from the bibliometrics of its contingent generation of documentation in the same manner that can be analyzed by historical methods. As institutions grow in resources, the absolute volume of documentation produced rises. In the context of the Soviet Southern Tier, the Russian language documentation bibliometrics for the eight republics image their relative level of institutional development. Comparing the relative levels of documentation to socio-economic variables, the degree to which the documentation is a local product, or a product of All-Union intervention can be determined. Hence, the degree to which institutional development is dependent or autonomous can be gauged for each republic. The analysis of these relationships between the degree to which documentation production is a dependent process, and the relative level of documentation generation, provides an empirical basis for the ranking of regional institutional development. This ranking establishes the framework for a historical description of the relative position of the nationalities of the Southern Tier. This quantitative perspective on Soviet nationality policy parallels the historical process by which the nationalities have been integrated into the Soviet system. The two nationalities most constrained by the nationality policies are the Armenians, with their nationalism and irredentism based on well developed local institutions, and the Uzbeks, with their large population base and historical leadership role in Central Asia. The role of intensively Soviet developed nationalities (Turkmen, Kirghiz, and Karakalpak) in the multi-ethnic system is considered in terms of their moderating the potential for hegemony by the largest nationalities. Azerbaijan SSR emerges as the regional center of a system of measures taken to promote stability and to minimize the prospects of autonomous ethnic hegemony in the Soviet Southern Tier.
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Martin, R. J. "Changes in the economic and social structure of Soviet Azerbaijan, 1970-1990." Thesis, Swansea University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638015.
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In 1969 Azerbaijan's political and industrial leaders were spurred by poor economic results into renewed efforts to increase output from the key sectors and to modernize the economy. Despite huge investments, little progress was made. The key policy of political/administrative prioritization of selected sectors failed. In 1990 by comparison with 1970, Azerbaijan's economy required significantly larger additional inputs to achieve an output increase. This phenomenon was particularly striking in petroleum extraction and refining, the related engineering sector and agriculture. Despite infusions of resources, the oil industry's output in 1990 was lower than in 1970 and its range of equipment remained generally outmoded. In engineering, plant and output were substantially the same in 1990 as in 1970; continuing poor product quality and reliability affected Azerbaijan's petroleum industry, and also West Siberia. Refining became less efficient in its use of resources and crude inputs. New, more modern capacity notwithstanding, industry reports in the late 1980s bemoaned the dangerous state of Baku's refineries. In agriculture the collectivized and private sectors were inextricably linked. The former was the source of cheap inputs for the latter, which in turn provided the bulk of crops like vegetables and meat products. These two sectors were mutually sustaining. Reforms took place, such as the amalgamation of some smaller state and collective farms. Both, however, remained highly labour intensive, and became more resource-intensive. The tensions which emerged between Azerbaijanis and Armenians were not expressed before the late 1980s. In fact, analysis of bilingualism suggests that ethnic integration was the norm, even in rural areas, despite the fragmentary effects of agricultural patterns. Political factors arising from the Soviet Union's collapse were important in shaping the conflict. The current conflict bears only a superficial resemblance to that of 1900-24, whose causes were specific to the period.
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Stoltz, Dustin S. "Social capital and relational work| Uncertainty, distrust and social support in Azerbaijan." Thesis, Illinois State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1562504.
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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 interpretations of shared norms within moments of informal social support. In such situations, participants engage in an on-going negotiation of the situation, drawing on available cultural conventions to make sense of situations and perform relational work. They ultimately create meaning out of on-going social interaction and accomplish locally viable forms of social support.
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Hinds, David J. "Sedimentology and depositional setting of the Neogene productive series, Aspheron peninsula, Azerbaijan." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400731.
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The largely Pliocene productive Series and its regional equivalents form the major hydrocarbon reservoir unit of the South Caspian Basin. Examination of outcrops and subsurface data from across the Apsheron Peninsula, Azerbaijan, results in the re-interpretation of component depositional environments. Previous studies over-emphasised the role of deltaic processes and lake-level fluctuation in shaping the straitographic architecture of the succession. The repeated juxtaposition of reservoir sandstone and sealing mudstone instead represents the expansion and contraction of terminal fluvial systems primarily due to climatic control of discharge and sediment supply. Arid phase climates result in coarse-grained sediment starvation, lacustrine contraction, and deposition of low net to gross portions of the succession in alluvial and alluvial/lacustrine plain settings. During humid climatic phases, discharge and coarse-grained sediment supply increase, resulting in expansion of high net’to gross braided fluvial systems.The fining-upward trend of the Productive Series is viewed as representing a long-term trend towards increasing aridity, which resulted in an extended period of coarse-grained sediment starvation with deposition in alluvial and alluvial/lacustrine plain settings, it does not represent regional transgression. The continued tectonic evolution of the Greater Causcasus is suggested as a cause of increasing aridity by the early establishment of a rain shadow over the region. The mountain belt also provided a source of sediment via the tributaries of the palaeo-Volga and an increasing structural control on the position of the tributaries themselves. Previous interpretations underestimated the role played by tectonic controls on Productive Series depositional systems. The revised depositional models present implications for hydrocarbon exploration by predicting the gradual down-dip termination of reservoir facies. Subsurface data suggest only the Pereriva Suite and Balakhnay Subunit VIII remain sand-prone in more basinal areas. Reservoir intervals also display considerable strike-oriented facies variability. Risk on reservoir sandstone distribution is thus increased.
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Balajanov, Elvin. "Responses to cybercrime in Azerbaijan, with special reference to the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22942/.
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The primary objective of this research is to explore and analyse policy and legal responses of Azerbaijan to cybercrime, provide detailed and insightful recommendations to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and legality of Azerbaijani responses to cybercrime based on the existing experience and insights of the UK. It is contended that although the application of Information and Communication Technologies has been significantly encouraged in Azerbaijan effective and efficient control and prevention of cybercriminal activities had not been adequately assured. This thesis has, thus, focused on finding out whether necessary institutions are in place, and whether national policies and laws are sufficient to address the challenges of cybercrime and are being implemented in accordance with national and international laws, standards and principles. Based on the research findings it is asserted that Azerbaijan has failed to respond appropriately to cybercrime due to the lack of both policy and legal frameworks as well as insufficient human, institutional and technological capacity and resources, and low levels of cooperation at the national and international levels. As one of the countries having encountered an increasing impact of threats from cybercrimes, Azerbaijan needs to enhance its capacity to control and prevent these threats more effectively and efficiently. Notwithstanding that the country has taken multiple measures to address the problem of cybercrime, these measures are not effectively coordinated and remain fragmented and incomplete. However, it has also become apparent that there is not a single solution to the problems posed by cybercrime, which Azerbaijan has failed to adopt. Cybercrime requires a holistic response: a combination of a strategy, policies and laws, extralegal measures, sufficient human, institutional and technological capacity and resources, as well as effective and efficient cooperation at the national and international levels.
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Jormanainen, Jim. "Conflict Duration and LGBT Vulnerability : A Comparison of Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445371.
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The interest in studying the effects of armed conflict and LGBTs have increased significantly in the last decade. Mainly due to the international recognition and increased reporting of violations against said group. Moreover, previous studies have mainly been within-case studies focusing on the state or rebel groups as the main perpetrators. This paper moves beyond these and explore why LGBTs are targeted to different extents across conflicts. Thus, the paper asks the following research question: "Why is the LGBT community more vulnerable in some armed conflicts than in others?". The paper argues that armed conflict duration fuels militarisation, which increases honour ideology over time. The process results in the polarisation of masculine and feminine ideals. Finally, as LGBTs inherently challenge the gender system, they are targeted by both civilians and the state. Hence, the hypothesis is, “The longer an armed conflict continues, the more vulnerable the LGBT community becomes.”. The paper uses structured focused comparison and data from 63 reports to conduct three within-case analyses and a cross-case comparison to answer the above question. The results and analyses indicate preliminary support for the hypothesis.
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Bedford, Sofie. "Islamic Activism in Azerbaijan : Repression and Mobilization in a Post-Soviet Context." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Huddinge : Department of Political Science, Stockholm University ; Södertörns högskola, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8429.
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Wiesner, Lale Larissa. "Privatisation in previously centrally planned economies : the case of Azerbaijan, 1991-1994." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28897/.
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Privatisation is a central theme in discussions over the transition process of previously centrally planned economies (PCPE). This study examines the developments in privatisation in Azerbaijan, one of the last republics of the FSU to embark upon the road of privatisation. The aim of research was to obtain first hand information on the privatisation process and to construct a qualitative, contextual picture of the power struggle over property rights. Part one establishes a theoretical framework under which privatisation in PCPEs can be evaluated. It establishes that privatisation can be seen as an instrument to build up a sound system of enterprise control and initiate industrial restructuring, and thus enhance static and dynamic efficiency. The success and effectiveness of this tool is dependent on various factors, especially (1) the evolution of institutional preconditions, i.e. the development of the political, legal, and financial framework and other fundamental institutions of a market environment; (2) the question of the power of the state, i.e. is it a strong state, with agenda-setting power, or a weak state, susceptible to counterproductive rent-seeking activities of insiders; (3) the proposed methods of privatisation; (4) the process of contracting for property rights. By applying the theories of privatisation in PCPEs developed in the first part, the second provides an account of the Azeri privatisation process and its likely effect on static and dynamic efficiency placing special emphasis on institutional preconditions. Because of the nature of the proposed research, especially in grasping the institutional dimensions of Azerbaijan's transition, intensive fieldwork was regarded as part of an appropriate research design. The analysis is based on original Azeri documents and archival records, transcripts of almost 127 hours of interviews, and extensive field visits carried out between December 1993 and February 1995.
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Mehdiyev, Azer <1991>. "Effectiveness of fiscal policy in oil-rich countries: the case of Azerbaijan." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/19568.
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Fluctuations in energy prices can pose a threat to the economic stability and growth targets of resource-rich countries. It becomes inevitable for the country to face macroeconomic problems when the state does not use its fiscal policy effectively, the budget is dependent on oil and natural gas revenues, efficiency in production, and therefore the efficiency in tax policy cannot be achieved. As seen in the case of Azerbaijan, state investment projects and the steady growth and development of the economy depend on energy prices. How the stability in the economy can be achieved regardless of oil prices has been accepted as the main question of the thesis subject.
Keywords: Public Budget, Fiscal Policy, Oil Revenues, Economic Stability, Azerbaijan
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Papazian, Lalig. "Nationalism and militarized crisis : the case of Nagorno-Karabagh." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37225.pdf.
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Andersen, Ramiza. "En fallstudie av Azerbaijans svåra väg mot demokrati." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22753.
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Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka bakomliggande faktorer som sätter käppar i hjulen för demokratiseringsprocessen i Azerbaijan. Med hjälp av rapporter från olika internationella organisationer, såsom Freedom House ser jag landets demokratiska utveckling och fungerande. Jag använt mig av den teoribekräftande fallstudien där jag applicerar demokratiseringsteorin på fallet i Azerbaijan. Freedom House rapport ” Nations in Transit” i Azerbaijan 2011 kan man förknipa med Robert Dahls polyarki begrepp.Polyarkibegreppet bygger på två grundelement: medverkan och tävlan eller konkurrens. Tanken bakom detta är att valen skall vara fria och rättvisa. Dahls polyarkimodell lägger krav på ett demokratiskt innehåll, politiska fri- och rättigheter. Yttrandefrihet, pressfrihet, allmän rösträtt och organisationsfrihet är grundläggande faktorer i polyarkin. Dahl´s polyarki består av ett antal kriterier som måste uppfyllas för att ett samhälle skall kunna betraktas som demokratiskt. Analysen av artiklarnas kriterier och teorier om demokratiseringsprocessen har visat att korruptionen och bristen på mänskliga rättigheter utgör en stor del i byggandet av en demokratisk stat. Robert Dahls kriterier som Freedom House rapporten utgår efter visar tydligt hur korrupt landet är, och just därför ses landet att vara långt ifrån demokratiskt.The purpose of this paper is to examine the underlying factors that put a spoke in the wheels of the democratization process in Azerbaijan. With the help of the reports from various international organizations such as Freedom House, I see the country democratic development and functioning.I am using the theory confirmation case study in which I apply democratic theory to the case of Azerbaijan. Freedom House Report “Nations in Transit” in Azerbaijan 2011, can associate with Robert Dahl´s polyarki concepts.Polyarki is concept based on two basic elements, participation and rivalry or competition. The idea behind this is that the elections be free and fair. Dahl polyarki modell adds requirements for a democratic content, political rights and freedoms. Freedom of expression, freedom of the press, universal suffrage and freedom of association are fundamental factors in polyarki concept. Dahls polyarki consists of a number of criteria must be met for a society to be considered democratic.The analysis of the articles criteria and theories of the democratic process has shown tha corruption and lack of human rights constitute a major part in building a democratic state. Robert Dahls criteria wich Freedom House report are made after clearly shows how corrupt the country is, and just because the country is seen to be far from democratic.
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Alasgarova, Shafa. "Employee performance management in the petroleum industry in Azerbaijan : cultural and industrial implications." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/employee-performance-management-in-the-petroleum-industry-in-azerbaijan-cultural-and-industrial-implications(74f15db7-548f-4fda-b610-67cade0efb3d).html.
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Companies face vital problems when implementing performance management in cross cultural context. Several attempts have been made to analyse employee performance management in the cultural and industrial context. However, the lack of studies of performance management in cultural and industrial context necessitates this phenomenon to be investigated in various cultures and contexts for sound academic contributions. The present study aims to investigate cultural and industrial influences on the general characteristics, criteria formulation and employee acceptance of performance management in cultural context. This study used a qualitative approach and is based on nine case studies in Azerbaijan. The study adopted semi structured in-depth interview and document analysis as the data collection methods. The results showed that the legal context is the most influencing dimension on the performance management system in Azerbaijan. The thesis concludes criteria for performance is the choice of management philosophy which is a cultural factor. The findings indicate that employees accept performance management positively when the process is implemented fairly. The findings of this study provide a solid evidence base for considering country culture and industry characteristics in implementing performance management. It is evidently clear from the findings that both local and international companies are faced with different problems when implementing performance management in the cross cultural context of Azerbaijan. This study should therefore be of value to practitioners wishing to overcome certain cultural and industrial related problems during implementation of performance management in host companies. In addition, the study contributed certain evidence of the cross cultural performance management process in the various context for the science.
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Aliyev, Emil Malik. "An Evaluation of Organizations Servicing Internally Displaced Persons in the Republic of Azerbaijan." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1024597603.
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Alizadeh, Karim. "Social Inequality at Köhne Shahar, an Early Bronze Age Settlement in Iranian Azerbaijan." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467508.
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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 scholars. However, our knowledge about its societal variations is still very limited. We do not yet know much about social dynamics behind its material culture that spread out through vast regions in the Caucasus and the Near East. Indeed, there are some fundamental questions about the Kura-Araxes cultural communities that need further investigation.
To address these questions, I focus on social inequality and its material manifestations through data collected from Köhne Shahar a Kura-Araxes site in the Chaldran area of the Iranian Azerbaijan. This study uses new data collected from one season of survey and three seasons of excavations at Köhne Shahar to examine the material manifestation of social inequality. Excavations at Köhne Shahar have generated data which allows me to present some preliminary conclusions regarding the state of social inequality at the settlement. I concentrate on four major features of the site, stratigraphy and chronology, fortification wall and external threat, specialized craft production, and residential segregation. Results from investigation and analyses of these evidence suggest that external threat and conflict could have played a role in development of political complexity (power inequality) at Köhne Shahar that could have been extended to control over the economy, especially craft production. I further argue that evidence of residential segregation at the site suggest social segmentation and hierarchical ordering within the community of Köhne Shahar. Overall evidence indicates that the site is a special and a complex version of Kura-Araxes Cultural Communities. I further argue that there is a great potential at Köhne Shahar for addressing social complexity and I discuss that further investigations at the site may shed more light on social dynamics in the Kura-Araxes cultural communities.Anthropology
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Klytchnikova, Irina. "Methodology and estimation of the welfare impact of energy reforms on households in Azerbaijan." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3658.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Agricultural and Resource Economics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Huseynov, Elmar. "Change And Continuity In Russian Foreign Policy Towards Azerbaijan In The Post-soviet Era." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12606384/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyzes Russian foreign policy towards Azerbaijan in the post-Soviet era. The dissolution of the Soviet Union paved the way for the independence of Azerbaijan. This development necessitated the redefinition of the relationship between Russia and Azerbaijan. However, post-Soviet Russia was reluctant to treat Azerbaijan as a fully independent state that could develop its relations other states freely. In this way, Moscow sought to keep Azerbaijan under its own sphere of influence. To this purpose, Russia used its influence in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the development of the Caspian Sea energy resources as its two main policy instruments for controlling Azerbaijan. When Vladimir Putin was elected as the President of Russia in 2000, it was not clear whether the previous Russian foreign policy towards Azerbaijan would continue as in the past or change. The developments between 2000 and 2005 show that Vladimir Putin changed the previous Russian stance on the Caspian Sea energy resources and took more collaborative posture towards Azerbaijan. However, Putin continued the earlier Russian position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This study argues that there has been both change and continuity in Russian foreign policy towards Azerbaijan since Vladimir Putin&rsquos rise to Russia&rsquo
s presidency in 2000. In this sense, Russian foreign policy under Putin could be conceptualized mainly as a pragmatic foreign policy. This conceptualization makes it possible to identify both change and continuity in Russian foreign policy towards Azerbaijan.
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Efe, Almula. "The Nagorno Karabakh Conflict And Its Impact On The Relations Between Azerbaijan And Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615077/index.pdf.
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This thesis seeks to examine the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey in terms of the role that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict plays in this relationship. The Nagorno Karabakh conflict, which is one of the long-lasting ethno-territorial
conflicts in the region, continues to be the major issue-area for Azerbaijan&rsquos foreign policy. In this respect, Azerbaijan&rsquo
s relations with Turkey, as well as NATO, the United States and Russia could be understood better through an academic study of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Contrary to the views of some scholars who claim that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict has become relatively less important vis-à
-vis the economic and energy issues in the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey, this thesis argues that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict still maintains its centrality in the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey. The thesis has five chapters, including introduction and conclusion chapters: Chapter Two explores the evolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict during the Elchibey period, while the Chapter Three and Chapter Four discuss the impact of this conflict on Azerbaijan&rsquo
s relations with Turkey under Heidar and Ilham Aliyev periods respectively.
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Yusifov, Mehdi Zahid. "Seismic interpretation and classification of mud volcanoes of the South Caspian Basin, offshore Azerbaijan." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2769.
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Understanding the nature of mud volcanism, mechanisms of formation, types of eruptions and their relationship to the hydrocarbon systems provides important information about subsurface conditions and geological processes within the South Caspian Basin.
A 2D seismic grid in southeastern offshore Azerbaijan is used to define the areal distribution of mud volcanoes and to make a classification of the mud volcanoes based on characteristic seismic features. As a result detailed database for each determined mud volcano is constructed. Analysis of different parameters from this database shows that there is a high concentration of mud volcanoes at the southern part of the study area. It is coincides with the distribution of the subsurface structures within the basin. Mud volcanoes with low relief (several tens of meters) are mainly concentrated in the northeast. Conversely, mud volcanoes with large vertical relief (greater than 200 m) are clustered in the southwest part of the basin. Mud volcano development in the South Caspian Basin is generally linked to faults, which in some instances are detached at the basement level. By using interpreted seismic surfaces it is possible to determine relative time of mud flows from the mud volcanoes. Timing of mud flows reveals to the actual activity of the mud volcanoes and it gives valuable information about possible mechanism of mud volcanism within the South Caspian Basin.
Previous studies of the onshore mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan and the results from current work conclude that mud volcano formation within the South Caspian Basin is mainly controlled by tectonic forces and overpressured sediments. Mud volcano activity is not always related to the Maykop organic reach shale succession. It can occur at shallow depths by pressure breakthrough from any stratigraphic zone.
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Yilmaz, S. Harun. "Construction of national identities in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine in Soviet historiography (1936-1953)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5694552d-67e7-4d03-8011-cb01b1c8caa8.
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This dissertation aims to explain how Soviet national historiographies were constructed in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, in 1936-1953 and what the political and ideological reasons were behind the way they were written. The dissertation aims to contribute to current scholarship on Soviet nationality policies; on Stalinist nation-building projects; and to the debate on whether the Soviet period was a project of developmentalist modernization or not. This dissertation aims to examine the process of national history writing in three republics from the local point of view, by using the local archival sources. For this research, archival materials that have been overlooked by scholars up to this point from the archives of the communist parties, academy of sciences, and central state archives in Kiev, Ukraine, Baku, Azerbaijan, and Almaty, Kazakhstan have been collected. The timeline starts with Zhdanov’s commission in 1936, which summoned historians and ideologues of the Communist Party in Moscow to write an all-Union history because a parallel campaign of writing national histories had been initialized by the local communist parties. The first two chapters cover the pre-war (1936-1941) period, when national histories were written after the demise of Pokrovskiian historiography. Although there was one ideology, there were different preferences in solving the problem of ethnogenesis, defining national heroes, and also different preferences among the sections of the past that national histories emphasized. The third chapter explains the construction of national histories during the war period (1941-1945). The chapter also presents how national histories were used for wartime propaganda. Finally, the last chapter is about the post-war discussions and the shift of emphasis from ‘national’ to ‘class’ that occurred in the non-Russian national narratives in the Zhdanovshchina period. While there was an ‘imperial design’ for the necessities of managing a multi-national state, the Soviet Union also appears as a modernization project for all three cases by constructing national narratives. Though non-Russian Soviet historiographies produced contradictory narratives in different decades, they also homogenized, codified and nationalized the narrative of the past. Regional, dynastic, religious, tribal figures and events incorporated into grandiose national narratives. Nations were primordialized and their national identities armed with spatial and temporal indigenousness within the borders of their national republics. Modern national identities of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gained from this homogenization and codification by the Soviet regime. Although modernism is not only about construction of national narratives, the latter points out the developmental and modernizing character of the Soviet period.
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Nugent, Selin Elizabeth. "A Death on the Imperial Frontier: an osteobiography of Roman burial from Oglanqala, Azerbaijan." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385283801.
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Heyat, Farideh. "Career, family and femininity : sovietisation among Muslim Azeri women." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314069.
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