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Farhad Mammadov,Tahira Allahyarova. Establishment, development and
perspectives of think tanks and research centers in Azerbaijan. Center for
Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan;
Editor: Dr.E.Aslanov - Baku, 2013. 348 p.
SUMMARY
As the economy of Azerbaijan has completed its period of transition, today
the activity of the think tanks and research centers has moved to the next stage of
intensive development. Innovative society building based on science and know-
ledge has created, in its turn, social order for the researches reflecting the creation
of thorough view about the reality of the existing “brain potential” of the country,
think tanks. The Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic
of Azerbaijan has implemented the research project in consideration of the menti-
oned issues. The results of that investigation have been indicated in the book cal-
led “Establishment, development and perspectives of the think tanks and research
centers in Azerbaijan. Tthe Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan – Baku, 2013”.
The following topics have been indicated in the book:
1.General view of Think Tanks and Research
Centers in Azerbaijan
• Restoration of the state independence and establishment of Think Tanks and
Research Centers
• New stage of development: state policy in the field of establishment of “think
tanks”
• Research Centers and Think Tanks and civil society: similar and different fea-
tures
• Non-state analytical centers in Azerbaijan: the peculiarities
of the activity
• Ideological status of the Think Tanks and Research Centers in Azerbaijan
• Coordination and cooperation of Think Tanks and Research Centers in Azerba-
ijan: form and mechanisms
• Typology and classification of Think Tanks and Research Centers in Azerbaijan
• Think Tanks and Research Centers acting under state structures and attached to
universities
and parties
2.Think Tanks and Research Centers in the system of civil society in Azer-
baijan (condition and directions of activity, financial, human, organizational and
intellectual resources)
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3.Analysis on the basis of the results of the held questionnaire-survey
• The place and comparison of “think tanks” in the system of the civil society in
Azerbaijan
• Number of the NGOs registered in Azerbaijan according to the years
• Think Tanks and Research Centers acting
in socio-political field
• Think Tanks and Research Centers acting in socio-economic field
• Think Tanks and Research Centers
analyzing regional processes
• General statistics of the survey conducted with the Think Tanks and Research
Centers analyzing regional processes
• Think Tanks and Research Centers acting in the field of security and the mili-
tary
• Think Tanks and Research Centers acting in ecological field
• The results of survey-investigation
4.General view of Think Tanks and Research Centers in Azerbaijan: creation,
features,
classification, status and perspectives
The process of formation of new intellectual elite able to be the main force
of modern society in Azerbaijan is underway and the sensitive policy of the state
towards this field is yielding its positive results. The intellectual elite includes
analytical-expert society, Think Tanks and Research Centers (TTRC) that are att-
ributes of the society based on knowledge.
The formation of qualitative and competitive “think tank” structure in the co-
untry is one of the urgent issues.
The Think Tanks and Research Centers in Azerbaijan differed from the West
according to their features of establishment; first such center was established by
the order of President Ilham Aliyev. The establishment of the Center for Strategic
Studies – the first official “think tank” in the country by the Decree of President
Ilham Aliyev in 2007 made the beginning of a new tradition serving the deve-
lopment of statehood, increase of scientific potential and prestige of Azerbaijan.
So, inclusion of the notion “think tank” in the state language and national lexicon
and broad application as a common word took its start, the number of agencies
identifying themselves as TT increased, “culture of thought” began to be formed.
In its turn, the CSS considered the investigation of real situation of think tanks
and research centers, their cooperation for the development and their perspectives
as one of the priority issues and important to conduct this investigation.
The chronological limits of the investigation cover the period starting from
the establishment of the think tanks and research centers at the time of indepen-
dence in Azerbaijan up to the time of their turning to the subject of public policy.