Azerbaijani National Identity: From Ethnicity To Statehood The study of national identity as a phenomenon of collective consciousness is crucial in understanding the development of any society. The situational nature of ethnicity makes it prone to be used for rallying individual and collective interests both within the society in question and from without. The development of Azerbaijani national identity presents a particularly colorful example in this regard...

Pax Turcica Institute: A Platform for Turkic Advocacy and Research Over a century ago, the idea of Turkic unity contributed to the liberation of Turkic-speaking subjects of the Russian Empire and to the establishment of a modern Turkish Republic in the Ottoman heartland. Such Turkic idealism also formulated the success of the first Azerbaijani democracy in 1918 and promoted the development of national consciousness among the Turkic peoples of Central Asia in 1920s...