http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/601 2026-07-02T08:52:34Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/8338 Title: Opinion: "Azerbaijan’s decision to interweave the global urban development agenda with its own post-conflict recovery story was deliberate and, on reflection, relevant" Authors: Huseynov, Vasif Abstract: When Baku was selected to host the 13th Session of the United Nations World Urban Forum (WUF13), it was not merely a recognition of Azerbaijan’s growing organizational capacity on the world stage. It was, in many ways, a fitting venue for a conversation about post-conflict reconstruction that the country has been engaged in more urgently than almost any other in the world. Running from May 17 to 22, 2026, under the theme “Housing the World: Safe and Resilient Cities and Communities,” WUF13 attracted over 45,000 registered participants from 182 countries — making it, as President Ilham Aliyev noted at the opening, the largest international event ever held in Azerbaijan after COP29 (November 2024). 2026-05-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/8337 Title: Pashinyan Receives Western Endorsements Ahead of Parliamentary Elections Authors: Huseynov, Vasif Abstract: On May 26, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a brief stopover at Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport to meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan (U.S. Department of State, May 26). The visit lasted barely an hour, but it produced three signed documents and an unambiguous political signal. Rubio and Mirzoyan concluded a Charter on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, a framework agreement on the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), and a memorandum on securing the supply of critical minerals and rare earths (U.S. Department of State; Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 26). Standing alongside his Armenian counterpart, Rubio commended the government in Yerevan for “blazing a trail toward a brighter and more independent future” (Armenpress.am, May 26). The timing of the visit, less than two weeks before Armenia’s parliamentary elections, lent these agreements a pronounced electoral subtext. 2026-03-06T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/8336 Title: Armenia’s Parliamentary Elections: A view from Azerbaijan Authors: Huseynov, Vasif Abstract: Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections produced a result whose significance extends well beyond the country's borders. With Civil Contract, led by current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, securing 49.81 per cent of the vote, the Strong Armenia Alliance of Samvel Karapetyan at 23.29 per cent, and Robert Kocharyan's Armenia Alliance at 9.94 per cent, Pashinyan retains unilateral control of parliament and forms a single-party government for a third consecutive term. The outcome confirms that the post-Karabakh political dispensation in Armenia is durable: those who ran against the peace agenda were decisively rejected. 2026-06-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/8335 Title: Justice and L2 motivational network: An EBICglasso based analysis of English language learners' motivation, goal orientation, mindset, and justice in the classroom Authors: Çelik, Ferdi; Duran, Volkan; Curle, Samantha Abstract: This study models second language (L2) motivational factors and classroom justice in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners via a network psychometric method. The study formulates a network of motivational aspects including expectancy beliefs, goal orientations, ideal and ought-to L2 selves, learning experiences, intended effort, mindsets, and anxiety and distributive, procedural, and interactional justice dimensions as an interconnected system based on the expectancy-value-cost theory, achievement goal theory, the L2 Motivational Self System, implicit theories of ability, and organizational justice frameworks. The analysis of the data on 434 Turkish undergraduate EFL students using network analysis demonstrates that the study has a moderately dense network with two major communities: cohesive justice community that offers social-relational scaffolding and motivational-affective community that focuses on English learning experience, ideal L2 self, and intended effort. The most central node, which has a significant impact, is intended effort, and the facets of justice, especially interactional and procedural justice, serve as bridges between social perceptions and cognitive-affective engagement. Perceived costs and fixed mindsets are maladaptive factors with inhibitory functions and relative isolation. The results build on the dynamic systems models of L2 acquisition by integrating the perceptions of justice into the motivational ecologies of the learners and emphasizing their control role in promoting persistence and reducing avoidance. The network approach, methodologically, provides a replicable framework of future research, and implications of the study in practice with regard to pedagogical intervention to promote justice to improve motivational outcomes. 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z