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Executive Summary: Armenia and Azerbaijan remain at an impasse in their ongoing peace process, facing the conditions of withdrawing international lawsuits and agreeing on a ban against third-party military forces along their border. Armenia’s constitutional claims over Karabakh and the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group remain sensitive topics. Azerbaijan insists on amending Armenia’s constitution…
The occupation and ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts in the early 1990s by the armed forces of Armenia involved immeasurable atrocities and extreme violence. Realizing that more than 700,000 people in the region would not easily flee their homes, Armenian leaders resorted to force. The ethnic cleansing carried out by…
The Munich speech of the U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance will definitely enter the textbooks of the future as one of the harbingers of a new historic period. This speech has been arguably more shocking than Vladimir Putin’s diatribe he made on the same stage 18 years ago, as it basically announced a radically…
The foreign policies of the architects of the ‘rules-based’ world order, primarily the United States and leading EU member states like France, have for decades been associated with the practice of ‘intervention.’ This includes both direct military interventions and the use of soft power. Today, however, countries are increasingly vocal in their unwillingness to allow…
On February 17, 2025, an online meeting was held with the staff of the Social Research Center at the initiative of Elsevier Digital Commons, a globally recognized leader in academic research, scientific analytics, and information. The meeting brought together Yasemin Solay, Elsevier Digital Commons Regional Partnership Manager, and Hossam Ashour, Research Consultant at Elsevier, along with Professor Tahira Allahyarova, a member…
Prof. Tom Sauer from the University of Antwerp, the next speaker of our “Global Perspectives Lecture Series” discussed how emerging technologies and advanced weapons are reshaping nuclear arsenals and global security. Prof. Sauer said that emerging technologies are not just changing the way we think about nuclear weapons; they are redefining the future of global…
The policy decisions made by the new President of the United States, Donald Trump, have triggered tectonic shifts in the international political order. The post-World War II, U.S.-led system is unraveling before our eyes, and paradoxically, this process has been accelerated by the United States itself. The new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, described the…
Today, on 6 February, Hungary’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Tamás Torma attended Topchubashov Center and was hosted by Rusif Huseynov, the organization`s director. They discussed Azerbaijan-Hungary bilateral relations, regional developments and cooperation opportunities between the Embassy and Topchubashov Center.
Operating under the motto ‘Your Opinion is Our Work!’ the Social Research Center (SRC) has actively contributed to shaping and implementing policies related to social research, analysis, forecasting, and public opinion studies in Azerbaijan over the past six years (2019–2024). The Center has systematically analyzed the dynamics of various socio-political relationships reflecting national interests, identified…
