Vugar Seyidov, Dr. holds MA in European Studies from the Central European University, MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, and PhD in History from Moscow University. His professional experience covers such areas as educational management, media consultancy, refugee relief, international development programs. His research interests include international relief, conflict management, and humanitarian law.
Authors articles:
Moscow Was Trying to Save Its Empire, Not Armenians, In January 1990
Twenty years after the fact, the events of January 1990 remain a source of controversy especially since some groups are seeking to distort the record in order to promote their own narrow political agendas...
Russia’s Invasion of Georgia: What It Was and What It Meant
August this year was a hot month and not just in terms of the weather. Within a single week, two parallel wars began and ended. One was an intra-state war between Georgia and South Ossetia which Tbilisi won quickly and decisively. The other was an international war between Russia and Georgia, which Tbilisi lost equally decisively. This second war was the second time (after the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict) that two former Soviet republics have fought...
The Five Key Vectors of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy
After it recovered its independence in 1991, Azerbaijan faced the challenge of defining almost from scratch policies on an enormous range of foreign policy issues. Indeed, the range of these issues is so broad that sometimes makes it difficult to see the basic contours of Baku’s approach to the world. But now, nearly 17 years after this process began, it is possible to identify the five key vectors of Azerbaijan's foreign policy...
