Sevinge Yusifzade, Dr. is Professor of History at the Baku State University. She holds kandidat nauk in History from the Azerbaijan State Predagogical University and a doctorate in History from the Baku State University. At different times, she taught History at the State Oil Academy and the Azerbaijan State Economic University. Since 1997, she has been teaching at the Baku State University. Her research interests include foreign policy and diplomacy of Azerbaijan, and history of the UK-Azerbaijan relations.
Authors articles:
Sara Khatun: Azerbaijan’s First Female Diplomat
Azerbaijanis have always taken great pride in the fact that their country was the first nation in the East to extend the franchise to women, a step it took even before the United States did. But they have another reason to be proud about the role of women in public life: More than 500 years ago, an Azerbaijani woman played a key role in the politics and foreign relations of her country, centuries before women did so elsewhere...
A Not So Distant Model: The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic of 1918-1920 and Baku’s Post-Soviet Foreign Policy
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Azerbaijan had a distinct advantage compared to most of the other “new” states when it came to developing its foreign policies. It could look back to the first Azerbaijan republic of 1918-1920 for a model of how they should proceed, something many of its leaders and people did because to an uncanny degree, post-Soviet Azerbaijan faced many of the same challenges and opportunities that republic faced during its brief existence more than 70 years earlier...
