Jamil Hasanly, Dr., MP. is Professor of History at the Baku State University and Member of Milli Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan. He holds doctorate in history from the Baku State University. His interests include Azerbaijan in the system of international relations (1918-1920); Azerbaijani Iran and the Cold war; Turkey and the Cold war. Among Dr. Hasanly’s most recently published monographs are: At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet-American Crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan, 1941-1946 (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006); USSR-Iran: Azerbaijan Crisis and Beginning of the Cold War, in Russian (Moscow, 2006); USSR-Turkey: from Neutralities to Cold War, in Russian (Moscow, 2008).
Authors articles:
Russian-Turkish Relations Between the Sovietization of Azerbaijan and the Sovietization of Armenia
Recently a large number of articles devoted to Russian-Turkish relations and their connection with events in the South Caucasus in the 1920s have appeared in the Russian media. Often they have sacrificed historical truth in attempts to link the events of those years to what is taking place now, and as a result...
How the Karabakh Khanate Was Joined to the Russian Empire: Historical Myths and Realities
After the Kazan meeting of the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, stories about the history of Nagorno-Karabakh began to increase in number on the pages of various media outlets. As a rule, in most of them, the history of Nagorno-Karabakh both in the Soviet period and in the period of its being jointed to the Russian empire in the first half of the 19th century was seriously distorted...
Moscow and the Delimitation of Karabakh in the 1920s
As a contribution to the unveiling of the history of Soviet policy toward Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan in the World offers what is the final section of a three-part article on the origins of Soviet policy on this region that was prepared by distinguished Azerbaijani historian Jamil Hasanly...
Moscow and the Delimitation of Karabakh in the 1920s
As a contribution to the unveiling of the history of Soviet policy toward Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan in the World offers what is the first half of the third (and final) of a three-part article on the origins of Soviet policy on this region that was prepared by distinguished Azerbaijani historian Jamil Hasanly...
Moscow and the Delimitation of Karabakh in the 1920s
As a contribution to the unveiling of the history of Soviet policy toward Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan in the World offers what is the final half of the second of a three part article on the origins of Soviet policy on this region that was prepared by distinguished Azerbaijani historian Jamil Hasanly...
Moscow and the Delimitation of Karabakh in the 1920s
As a contribution to the unveiling of the history of Soviet policy toward Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan in the World offers what is the second (first half) of a three part article on the origins of Soviet policy on this region that was prepared by distinguished Azerbaijani historian Jamil Hasanly...
Moscow and the Delimitation of Karabakh in the 1920s
As a contribution to the unveiling of the history of Soviet policy toward Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan in the World offers what is the first of a three part article on the origins of Soviet policy on this region that was prepared by distinguished Azerbaijani historian Jamil Hasanly...
Azerbaijan’s Borders: The Shadow of the ADR’s Experience Today
As Azerbaijanis approach the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) on May 28th, they are taking pride in the fact that their forefathers were the first in the entire Muslim world to launch a secular newspaper, a modern theater and opera, and a democratic state in which women were given the right to vote. But they are also thinking about that republic’s experience with defining its territory and establishing its borders, reflections that could have an impact on Baku’s policies in the future...
