No 5, Spring 2004

Contents:

D E M O C R A C Y     P R O B L E M S

George Kvester : Alongside existence of ethnic groups: positive lessons of the past               

LECTURE

Neil  MacFarlane: Caucasian perspectives

INTERVIEWER

Steinar Gil: “If you serve to non-democratic regime, any time could be appear problems connected with your morality, conscience”

Levan Berdzenishvili: “Is Georgian revolution the second wave of democracy?”

DEMOCRACY HISTORY

Rovshan Ramizoglu: Apartheid – fascism a la African

Nelson Mandela: Inauguration speech

PRESENTATION

A.Bagirova: “Foreign policy of Iraq (1968-2003)”

 C I V I C     S O C I E T Y

Eric Chenoweth & Irena Lasota: Centers for pluralism serve to construction of new free society over ruins of communism

Lecha Ilyasov: «Kyonakhalla» – Chechen code of honor

Shirali Suyarkulov: Democratic society of bees

PHILANTHROPY NOTABILITIES

John Rockefeller

№ 1, Autumn, 2002

Contents:

D E M O C R A C Y     P R O B L E M S

Vladimir Litvin: “Civic society: myth and reality”

Vahid Gazi: “Democratic elections in authoritarian regimes?!”

Ivlian Haindrava:  “Elections in South Caucus and international observation”

DEMOCRACY HISTORY: Mustafa Jamilov: “Last word” (1984)

INTERVIEWER:  Mais Gulaliyev

 FIVE RESPONSES TO ONE QUESTION: “Not allowing NGOs to elections observation”

C I V I C    S O C I E T Y

MONITORING: NGO and Media

PHILANTHROPY NOTABILITIES: Will Keith Kellogg, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur

FUNDRAISING

WHO. WHAT. WHERE

№ 2, Spring, 2003

Contents:

D E M O C R A C Y     P R O B L E M S

Ahmad bey Agaoglu: “Extracts from the work “In the country of free persons”

Shanazar Huseynli: “Liberal-democratic views of Ahmad bey Agaoglu”

Francis Fukuyama:  “Democracy Future: The Primacy of Culture”

Samuel Huntington:  “After Twenty years: The Future of The Third Wave”

INTERVIEWER: Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky

DEMOCRACY HISTORY: Prague in 1968

Rahman Badalov: “Civic society problems in Azerbaijan” (in Russian)

 C I V I C     S O C I E T Y

 POSITION: Zardust Alizadeh

FIVE RESPONSES TO ONE QUESTION: 10 years Azerbaijan independence

PHILANTHROPY NOTABILITIES: Lynde and Harry Bradley, George Soros

FUNDRAISING

№ 3, Autumn, 2003

Contents:

D E M O C R A C Y     P R O B L E M S

Charles H. Fairbanks: “Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup. Disillusionment in the Caucasus and Central Asia”

Ivlian Khaindrava: “Problems of organizing international observation in the elections conducted in the countries of Southern Caucasus”

DEMOCRACY HISTORY: Ronald Reagan. “I’ve paid for this microphone, Mr. Grin!”

INTERVIEWER: Ramiz Rovshan. “No national freedom is possible without personal freedom”

R.Rovshan: Azerbaijani-style ”Hannibalism” or table-cloth of power

 C I V I C     S O C I E T Y

Kamil Veli Narimanoglu: From the series “Those who cleared doors to Europe” – Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh

Claude Zullo: ”NGOs – unlikely targets of Azerbaijan’s and Georgia’s wars on terrorism”
Zulfiyya Aliyeva: ”Participation (and other) problems of local NGOs in the elections”

FIVE RESPONSES TO ONE QUESTION: BTC oil pipeline

PHILANTHROPY NOTABILITIES: John Hopkins

No 4, Winter  2004

Contents:

D E M O C R A C Y     P R O B L E M S

Brenda Shaffer: Is There a Muslim Foreign Policy? The Case of the Caspian

Vahid Gazi: Are reforms inescapable in Shariat

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim: Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law

Mahmudali Chohraganli: Every one will be able to see changes in Iran in the near future – in one or two years

Arif Keskin:  US –South Azerbaijan and Iranian identity crisis

DEMOCRACY HISTORY: Paula L.W. Sabloff. The long road. The democratic legacy of Genghis Khan

C I V I C     S O C I E T Y

THOSE, WHO OPENED DOORS TOWARDS EUROPE: Kamil Veli Narimanoglu. “Hasan bey Zerdaby”

Jine Betcke Elshtaine: Four brave women

Azer Garachenly: Gulnaz

PHILANTHROPY NOTABILITIES: Ahmed Vehbi Koch

 

No 6, Summer 2004

Contents:

D E M O C R A C Y     P R O B L E M S

Ivan Krastev: The anti-american Century?                   

Ladan and Roya Borumand: Terror, Islam, and democracy

Nariman Gasimoglu:  Adaptation Problems of Islam in the Contemporary Political Realities  of  the Caucasus Region

Eldar Namazov:  National security

INTERVIEWER: Philip Dimitrov. «Bulgaria is still one of the poorest and unhappy representatives in the family of the rich and happy Western countries»

PRESENTATION (Book): Jamil Gasanli. «Southern Azerbaijan at the beginning of the cold war»

 C I V I C     S O C I E T Y

DEMOCRACY HISTORY: Jezy Tarqalski.  Monologue of the former dissident

Pertuska Sustrova:  How does the European Union enlarge?

Alimammed Nuriyev:  NGOs: it is a long way to the smooth road

PHILANTHROPY NOTABILITIES: Sakip Sabanchi

No.7, Fall 2004

Contents:

D E M O C R A C Y     P R O B L E M S

Stephen Sestanovich: Russian Democracy in Eclipse: Force, Money, and Pluralism

TRANSITION: Rafail Hasanov. From fascism to democracy

LECTURE: Hikmet Hajizadeh. What happens in the Moslem world and future of freedom of religion in Azerbaijan

INTERVIEWEE: Marina Ottaway. Political opposition can’t be formed from side

ANTIDEMOCRACY: Mammad Suleymanov. Oil democracy: excerpts from black fate of oil country Nigeria

PRESENTATION (Book): R.Hasanov: “Formation of civic society under transformation condition”

C I V I C    S O C I E T Y

DEMOCRACY HISTORY: Martin Luter King

PROBLEM: Municipalities without authorities (interview with Zahid Garalov)

“N”AMIG PRESENTS: Azerbaijan with 17 regions or how the organism consisting of scraggy administrative components could be revived?

FIVE RESPONSES TO ONE QUESTION: Municipality

Shohret Jurayev: “Mahalla” – Uzbek municipality

POSITION: Mehriban Vezir. Municipality without a woman?!

GLOBE: Ulvi Akhundlu. What is OSCE?

PHILANTHROPY NOTABILITIES:  Joseph Pulitzer

№ 8 (16) 2005

Contents:

DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS: Russian experts. 10 terms of revolution

INTERVENTION: Hijran Aliyeva. Revolution of virtue

WITNESS: Ivan Lozowy. Own way of each nation

DEMOCRACY PROBLEMS: How not to divide the government

POLEMIC: Ivlian Haindrava. Geogria with “roses”

HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY: Tokhtamish Atesh. Turkey is a republic relying on people’s hegemony 

LECTURE: Leyla Aliyeva. Reconstruction of destroyed powers depends on democratic reforms

INTERVIEWER: Noam Chomsky. There is no thing called collision of civilization

ANTIDEMOCRACY: Mammad Suleymanov. Policy “our son of a bitch”

 PSYCHOLOGICAL: Azer Garachenli. Police should be prohibited to wear black mask

MANIA: “Ayat”s of dictatorship

TERROR: Poison in policy school

 EXTRA-TRIBUNE: Michaele W. Foley, Bob Edwards. Paradoxes of citizens power

 MONITORING: Haji Zamin. From Aghdash to Aghstafa along the pipeline

№ 2 (17) 2005

Contents:

DEMOCRACY PROBLEMS: Old (not obsolete) idea: Why is necessary transition to parliamentary republic

CHAINY THINKING: Yosef Matskevich. A letter to Sholokhov

Fakhri Ughurlu: Brain paralysis

POST: World experts. Colored revolutions. Intermediate finish

EXTRA-TRIBUNE: Ursula Owen. Pretexts of censorship

ANTI-DEMOCRACY: Mammad Suleymanov. To kill, to deal violently, to strangle in the cradle

(Islam Kerimov has no opponents. He has only enemies)

A letter to editorial office: Milat Jumayev, Oydin Dinarov. Shout of Uzbekistan      

HOPEFUL FUTURE: Chingiz Mammadov. Two sides of oil

INTERVIEWER: Niyazi Mehdi. Types of Soviet people are a lot in our Republic and Georgia as well

CONFLICT: Tariyel Jallali. Not suitable models. Kosovo script could be foisted to Azerbaijan

HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY: Solidarnoct. Polish stone thrown into anti-kommunism ocean

TRANSITION: Eldar Zeynalov. Final Act (Helsinki spirit is still alive)

CIVIC SOCIETY: Terms of civic society

NGO WORLD: Annagha Hajibeyli. Unions and discords and discords together

PHYLANTROPY NOTABILITIES. Andrew Carnegie

 

№ 3 (18) 2005

Contents:

DEMOCRACY PROBLEMS: How to organize the court

AT CROSSING OF YEARS: Elkhan Shahinoghlu. Azerbaijan road. Agony?

TRANSITION: O.Maslov, A.Prudnik. Russian dilemma: “1917” will return if orange revolution and system transformation does not take place

Washington Profile: In the turn of revolution and transformation

CONTRAST: Rasim Musabeyov. Riot of the miserable (France)

LECTURE. Ivlian Haindrava. Southern Caucasus on the road to Europe

HUMAN RIGHT: Sabina Avazgizi. Death in length of life

ANTI-DEMOCRACY: Mammad Suleymanov. A dictator reformer. (Pinochet’s terror against terror)

BACKSTAGE: Pledge policy. The politicians in the captivity of Cheka officers and Cheka officers in the captivity of the politicians

 MANIA: “Poet, you are at king’s disposal” (Poeticize of the president of Turkmenistan Saparmurad)

 HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY: ACTION. Boycott

MONITORING: Is the population a citizen? Violence of state officials

PHILANTHROPY NOTABILITIES: Rafig Hariri

 

№ 1 (19) 2006

 Ичиндякиляр

БИРИНЪИ СЦТУН: Ващид Гази. «Кюрпцдя йашамазлар»

ТРАНЗИСИЙА

СИЙАСИ ТРАНЗИСИЙА: Рящман Бядялов. «Авропалылыг»ла «асийалылыг» арасында: кяфкир щара яйиляъяк?

Расим Мусабяйов: Сон 15 ил: либерал вя тоталитар дцнйаэюрцшляринин дюйцш мейданы

ЩЦГУГИ ТРАНЗИСИЙА: Ярястун Оруълу. Биздя либерал дяйярляря мараг щеч дя Авропа юлкяляриндян аз дейил

Гуламщцсейн Ялибяйли. Азярбайъанын щцгуг системи марксист-ленинчи нязяриййяйя сюйкянир

ИГТИСАДИ ТРАНЗИСИЙА: Сабит Баьыров. Ислащатлара ленинчи ирслярин тясири: тарихи бахыш вя тенвенсийалар

МЦСАЩИБ: Айаз Салайев. «Биздя бу эцн шящвани щиссляр цстцнлцк тяшкил едир»

 МЕДИА: Сяадят Акифгызы. Информасийа мцщарибяси

АНТИ-ДЕМОКРАТИЙА: Темир Хоъа. Диктатура режимляри, демократийа вя Сорос «дцйцнц»

Мяммяд Сцлейманов. Африка тимсащлары

№ 2 (20) 2006

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Tomas Fridman: Neft bahalaşdıqca demokratiya ucuzlaşır

AVTORİTET: Məmməd Süleymanov. Uqo Çaves. Qəbirqazan lider

GEOSİYASƏT: Flint Levertt və Pyer Noel. Yeni neft oxu

DEMOKRATİYA PROBLEMLƏRİ: İrfan Çiftçi. Uydurma təlimlər. Və ya mədəniyyətlər niyə toqquşa bilməz

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