Developments in Azerbaijan After the Parliamentary Elections

Neslihan Kaptanoglu, research associate at the Foreign Policy Studies Department of the Economic Policy Research Institute is evaluating why the prospects of a revolution in Azerbaijan are low, at least in the near future, just like it had happened in other countries of the region such as Georgia and Ukraine. In this paper, she lists the factors that prevents such kind of a revolution despite the well publisized demonstrations organized by the oppositon right after the November 6, 2005 Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.