Democratization falters in Azerbaijan

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 118-131

  Cornell, Svante E ^a  

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EID: 0035593223     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2001.0022     Document Type: Review

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1. The fairness of the election, however, was partially compromised by the pas of a law preventing persons over the age of 65 from running for president. There is doubt that this law was passed solely to prevent Heydar Aliev from running.
2. For an account of the Karabakh war and its effect on Azerbaijan, see Svant Cornell, Small Nations and Great Power: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Caucasus (Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2000), ch. 4. See also Thomas Goltz, Azerba Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn Post-Soviet Repu (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998).
3. For an account of the Karabakh war and its effect on Azerbaijan, see Svant Cornell, Small Nations and Great Power: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Caucasus (Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2000), ch. 4. See also Thomas Goltz, Azerba Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn Post-Soviet Repu (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998).
4. Thomas Goltz, Azerbaijan Diary, 367.
5. See for example, Statement of the National Democratic Institute for Internatic Affairs (NDI) International Election Observer Delegation to Azerbaijan's October 1998, Presidential Election, 13 October 1998, available at www.ndi.org/ndi/worldwi eurasia/azerbaijan/oct1998/azer_obsv_10111998.htm.
6. Author interviews with Ali Kerimov, Baku, October 1999, 8 November 2000.
7. Author interviews with Etibar Memedov, Baku, October 1999; with Ilgar Memedi deputy chairman, November 2000.
8. As Jelaloghlu himself acknowledged in December 2000, when accounting for t party's failure to emerge as the major opposition party. See "Musavat Bashka Partyialard Chox Ses Toplayib" (Musavat got more votes than any other party), 525ci Gazet (Baku), 7 December 2000.
9. OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Republic of Azerbaijan: Review of the Law on Parliamentary Elections, Warsaw, 22 August 2000. See www.osce.org/odihr/election/azer00-I-review.htm.
10. Svante E. Cornell, "Azerbaijani Leadership Struggles to Reconcile Opposition with Political Succession," Eurasia Insight, 11 October 2000, available at www.eurasianet.org/ departments/insight/articles/eav101100.shtml.
11. National Democratic Institute, Statement of the National Democratic Institute International Observer Delegation to Azerbaijan's November 5, 2000 Parliamentary Elections, Baku, 7 November 2000 (available at www.ndi.org/ndi/worldwide/eurasia/ azerbaijan/nov2000/azerbstmt_112000.htm) citing an audit made by the Azerbaijani NGO "For the Sake of Civil Society."
12. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, and Council of Europe, Republic of Azerbaijan Election to the Milli Majlis, 5 November 2000: Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions, Baku, 6 November 2000, available at www.osce.org/odihr/election/azer00-2-prelim.htm.
13. Council of Europe, "Committee of Ministers Takes Decision on Armenia and Azerbaijan," press release, Strasbourg, 9 November 2000.
14. Ibid., 1.
15. Azerbaijan is ranked fourth from the bottom in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. See Transparency International, 2000 Corruption Perceptions Index, Berlin, 13 September 2000, available at www.transparency.de/ documents/cpi/2000/cpi2000.html.