ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, cilt.7, sa.26, ss.67-85, 2010 (SSCI)
'The aim of this article is to analyze the process of post-Soviet transformation in Azerbaijan while focusing on the process of democratization, peculiarities of the leadership and political elite, success and failure in electoral politics, and development of civil society. I argue that the politics of the post-independence period was shaped by the conflicting co-existence of patterns of continuity and change which determined the path of political transformation in Azerbaijan.