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This book examines why authoritarian governments are willing to address environmental problems that have an international impact, such as CO2 emissions, but are reluctant to address problems that have only a domestic impact. In a case study of Azerbaijani oil politics, it demonstrates how the incumbent Azerbaijani regime has taken important measures trying to address CO2 emissions while ignoring the damage caused by oil pollution on the Caspian coast. The book argues that resource-rich authoritarian governments are eager to join international environmental initiatives to improve their image, but they address domestic environmental issues mainly if they threaten their hold on power. This book...
This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.
This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted.
Human Rights Watch's twenty-third annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide.
Human Rights Watch's 'World Report 2014' is their flagship 24th annual review of global trends and news in human rights.
On radical Islamic organizations related to the concept of the Islamic state in Indonesia.
Recommendations -- Methodology -- I. Arrests and convictions of activists, journalists, and others -- II. Restrictions on non-governmental organizations -- Harassment of activists' and journalists' family members -- IV. Proceedings against independent lawyers -- V. International response to Azerbaijan's civil society crackdown -- Acknowledgements.
– This book is prohibited from distribution in the author's homeland in Azerbaijan. – The writer was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment for this novel, and his books were confiscated. – This book was written before Bob Woodword’s book about Donald Tramp. – After being released from the prison the writer was driven out of his country, at present he lives at Refugee Camp in Belgium. – The international organizations on human rights recognized the writer as political prisoner and his name was included to their report – Saday Shakarli is grantholder of Nobel Prize Winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn for life.
Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professional intrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies. Set during the last years of the Soviet Union, Stone Dreams tells the story of Azerbaijani actor Sadai Sadygly, who lands in a Baku hospital while trying to protect an elderly Armenian man from a gang of young Azerbaijanis. Something of a modern-day Don Quixote, Sadai has long battled the hatred and corruption he observes in contemporary Azerbaijani society. Wandering in and out of consciousness, he revisits his hometown, the ancient village of Aylis, where Christian Armenians and Muslim Azeris once lived peacefully together, and dreams of making a pilgrimage of atonement to Armenia. Stone Dreams is a searing, painful meditation on the ability of art and artists—of individual human beings—to make change in the world.