Azerbaijan

or ever environmental reasons, such as land degradation. An example of a human space and place, which has experienced this change, is Russia. Russia is located northeast of Europe and to the north of Asia. It borders 14 countries, which include Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Latvia, Mongolia, Norway, Poland and Ukraine. The map in figure 1…

considered to be the primary bridge to the Western and Eastern Europe. 783,562 kilometer square is the total area of Turkey with 98% of land and 2% of water (Hodoğlugil and Mahley, 2012). The neighboring countries of Turkey include Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Syria, Greece and Bulgaria. According…

The prevailing view of most Americans is that the collapse of the Soviet Union was primarily caused by the pressures of the arms race during the Cold War. After reading Kotkin 's book Armageddon Averted it is clear that the internal changes that were going on inside the Soviet Union were far more influential in the collapse of the Soviet Union than in any external pressures brought on by the Reagan era arms buildup. The internal changes that were going on in the Soviet Union during this time…

Annually a lot of international students have left their own countries for the sole purpose of seeking higher education in Universities abroad and with this the population of international students is increasing every time. Moving to another country is a major life transition that can have potentially detrimental effects on people’s mental health (Mallinckrodt & Leong, 1992). Hess (1994) postulated that, in most situations it is very common for people who face an unfamiliar culture that during…

Carlyle Group and Halliburton, have been conducting business with Saudi Arabia for years. Even the Secretary of Treasury under President Bush serves of the board of Amerada Hess, which works with some of Saudi Arabia’s royal family members to exploit Azerbaijan for its oil resources. To make sure the workings of the system are not upset, Saudi Arabia keeps around a trillion dollars on deposit in U.S. banks; an agreement that was put…

There are some biological sciences which are essential for human being's life. Among an abundance of sciences, applied microbiology, biotechnology and genetic engineering play a key role in our lives. All of these science branches support and guarantee the life continuity and health of human being on the earth. Although the terms of applied microbiology, biotechnology and genetic engineering are novel and new, the sciences are prehistoric in practice. Through the several millennia, the human…

It is said that the things that are perceived as sacred, are the things that correspond with God’s wishes and commands (Perry). In the Muslim culture, Allah is God, the Quran is their holy book, and Muhammad was their last prophet (Grant). The Quran was created by Muhammad and includes Sharia Law, the Law of Islam. Sharia Law includes the words and actions of Muhammad on things private beliefs, public behavior and private behavior(“Sharia Law”). Sharia Law is the the most stringent in the world…

Ancient times involved many trade networks that helped establish the global economy. One of these trade networks was the Silk Road, the Han Dynasty of China helped form the Silk Road. The Silk Road connected the ancient world and helped spread global economy. The Silk Road was multiple routes from east to west. The routes were used commonly around 130 BCE, then the Han Empire expanded trade west, in 1453 CE the Ottoman Empire avoided trade with any body west and the Ottomans captured…

stressed that few months after he has published his essay, several events has occurred in the world that corresponds with his thesis, to name few, the fighting among Croats, Muslims, and Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the war between Armenian and Azerbaijan in Karabakh, and the fighting in central Asia between the Russian troops and the Mujahedeen militants. Furthermore, he pointed out that the Civilization thesis does not account for all the significant events that have occurred, there have…

Both Yeltsin’s and Dudayev’s sides contributed to the occurrence of war in Chechnya in 1994. Yeltsin felt increasing threatened by the security problem that Chechnya became for its neighbors. Banditry in Chechnya became a virtually legal form of income and a matter of civic pride. Although Dudayev was the leader of Chechnya, he could not prevent the cross-border raids, which left ethnic Russians and Chechens vulnerable to intimidation. Ruslan Khasbulatov’s increasing popularity as a powerful…