Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy

January 15, 2012
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Anar Valiyev

Anar Valiyev is Associate Director of Advanced Foreign Service Program at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. He holds BA (1999) and MA (2001) in History from the Baku State University, as well as MA in Public Affairs (2003) from the Indiana University Bloomington and PhD in Urban and Public Affairs (2007) from the University of Louisville in Kentucky. In 2007-2008 he was post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. His areas of interest include urban terrorism and security, public policy, governance and democracy. He has authored numerous articles and reviews for Human Security Journal, Middle East Review of International Affairs, Cold War Studies, Political Violence and Terrorism, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, International affairs, Terrorism Monitor, Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, Urban Studies Encyclopaedia.

Authors articles:

Salafi Muslims in Azerbaijan: How Much of a Threat? The number of self-described Salafi Muslims, Sunnis who aspire to life according to the “forefathers of Islam,” grew rapidly in Azerbaijan during the 1990s, especially in the northern portions of the country bordering Dagestan and Chechnya and in Baku, where there may be as many as 15,000 of them. [1] And their rise prompted some in the media to speculate on their possible links to Al-Qaeda or other Jihadist groups. [2] But so far, Azerbaijani government agencies have failed to develop a common approach to this often very diverse group of people...