Jamil Hasanli

Who is Jamil Hasanli?

Jamil Hasanli was born January 15, 1952 in Azerbaijan . He graduated with a History degree from Baku State University in 1975. In 1984 he finished his PhD, and he served as a professor at BSU in 1993-2011 and a professor at Khazar University in 2011-2013. He was advisor to the President of Azerbaijan in 1993 and served two terms as a Member of Parliament of Azerbaijan in 2000-2010. Professor Hasanli was presidential candidate from the National Council of Democratic Forces of Azerbaijan in October 2013. He was a History and Public Policy Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 2011.

Hasanli is the author of 28 books published in Azerbaijan, Russia, USA, Turkey, Iran and other countries. Two of his monographs were published in the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. His books The Khrushchev Thaw and National Question in Azerbaijan, 1954-1959, Foreign Policy of Azerbaijan in the Soviet Period, 1920-1939 and Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov: Life for the Idea, 1863-1934 raw heavily upon information from newly opened archives.