Cesare Figari Barberis
@cesarebarberis.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at ISGA, Leiden University. My research focuses on Emotions, Stigma and Ideology in the Caucasus and in the European Union
Pinned
Oggi l’Azerbaigian celebra la sua indipendenza. La festività segue l’ennesima ondata di arresti contro le poche voci indipendenti al regime Aliyev.
Ho parlato di quanto sta avvenendo con @cesarebarberis.bsky.social.
Vi raccomando la lettura e di seguire il lavoro sull’Azerbaigian di Cesare.
Ho parlato di quanto sta avvenendo con @cesarebarberis.bsky.social.
Vi raccomando la lettura e di seguire il lavoro sull’Azerbaigian di Cesare.
La repressione in Azerbaigian. Intervista a Cesare Figari Barberis • Meridiano 13
La repressione delle poche voci indipendenti al regime del presidente Ilham Aliyev prosegue in Azerbaigian. Intervista a Cesare Figari Barberis
www.meridiano13.it
La mia intervista (abbastanza lunga) con @tilmanalioscia.bsky.social di Meridiano 13, che ringrazio molto
Parliamo della crescente #repressione in Azerbaigian 🇦🇿, che ha portato all’arresto del mio co-autore Ahmad Mammadli…
…e delle motivazioni dietro al sostegno di 🇪🇺 e 🇮🇹 al regime di Aliyev
Parliamo della crescente #repressione in Azerbaigian 🇦🇿, che ha portato all’arresto del mio co-autore Ahmad Mammadli…
…e delle motivazioni dietro al sostegno di 🇪🇺 e 🇮🇹 al regime di Aliyev
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Imprisoned Azerbijani academic Bahruz Samadov has been transferred from Umbaki prison to the N11 facility and placed in solitary confinement. His grandmother says these new conditions have led him to again consider committing suicide.
🔗: oc-media.org/bahruz-samad...
🔗: oc-media.org/bahruz-samad...
Bahruz Samadov threatens suicide after being placed in solitary confinement
Samadov was recently temporarily transferred to a new prison and placed in poor conditions.
oc-media.org
October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Imprisoned Azerbijani academic Bahruz Samadov has been transferred from Umbaki prison to the N11 facility and placed in solitary confinement. His grandmother says these new conditions have led him to again consider committing suicide.
🔗: oc-media.org/bahruz-samad...
🔗: oc-media.org/bahruz-samad...
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Neue Ausgabe des Russian Analytical Digest:
Russia-Azerbaijan Relations: Diese Ausgabe widmet sich den angespannten Beziehungen zwischen Aserbaidschan und Russland nach dem Bruch im Jahr 2025.
css.ethz.ch/publikatione...
Russia-Azerbaijan Relations: Diese Ausgabe widmet sich den angespannten Beziehungen zwischen Aserbaidschan und Russland nach dem Bruch im Jahr 2025.
css.ethz.ch/publikatione...
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Neue Ausgabe des Russian Analytical Digest:
Russia-Azerbaijan Relations: Diese Ausgabe widmet sich den angespannten Beziehungen zwischen Aserbaidschan und Russland nach dem Bruch im Jahr 2025.
css.ethz.ch/publikatione...
Russia-Azerbaijan Relations: Diese Ausgabe widmet sich den angespannten Beziehungen zwischen Aserbaidschan und Russland nach dem Bruch im Jahr 2025.
css.ethz.ch/publikatione...
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Dear friends, I have launched a website for @ulviyyaali.bsky.social where you will be able to read her letters from prison and relevant news about her case: ulviyyaali.com
Ulviyya Ali
Official website of the independent journalist, human rights defender, and political prisoner Ulviyya Ali.
ulviyyaali.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Dear friends, I have launched a website for @ulviyyaali.bsky.social where you will be able to read her letters from prison and relevant news about her case: ulviyyaali.com
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Ursula von der Leyen can’t get too comfortable.
When she appears today before the European Parliament to defend her reputation (again), it’s known that even if her centrist opponents are keeping her in post, there’s always a next time.
When she appears today before the European Parliament to defend her reputation (again), it’s known that even if her centrist opponents are keeping her in post, there’s always a next time.
Von der Leyen will face endless challenges to her position
As the European Commission president braces for another no-confidence vote debate on Monday, she knows the tests will keep coming.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Ursula von der Leyen can’t get too comfortable.
When she appears today before the European Parliament to defend her reputation (again), it’s known that even if her centrist opponents are keeping her in post, there’s always a next time.
When she appears today before the European Parliament to defend her reputation (again), it’s known that even if her centrist opponents are keeping her in post, there’s always a next time.
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📣 The call for workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 in Izmir is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📣 The call for workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 in Izmir is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
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My new article is out now in @millennjournal.bsky.social !
Not the first paper I wrote during the PhD—but the first one to make it into the world 🌍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Not the first paper I wrote during the PhD—but the first one to make it into the world 🌍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Engaging With Temporal Others: Memory, Trauma and (In)security Across Time - Phuong Anh Nguyen, 2025
This paper examines how traumatic memory traverses temporal boundaries and shapes ontological (in)security across the past, present and future. Drawing on illus...
journals.sagepub.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
My new article is out now in @millennjournal.bsky.social !
Not the first paper I wrote during the PhD—but the first one to make it into the world 🌍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Not the first paper I wrote during the PhD—but the first one to make it into the world 🌍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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📌 Can Azerbaijan really seek peace while it continues to repress its own people?
Opinion by Vafa Naghiyeva
oc-media.org/opinion-can-...
Opinion by Vafa Naghiyeva
oc-media.org/opinion-can-...
Opinion | Can Azerbaijan really seek peace while it continues to repress its own people?
For true peace to happen, Azerbaijan must go beyond external agreements and look within to create change.
oc-media.org
September 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
📌 Can Azerbaijan really seek peace while it continues to repress its own people?
Opinion by Vafa Naghiyeva
oc-media.org/opinion-can-...
Opinion by Vafa Naghiyeva
oc-media.org/opinion-can-...
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Message from @smdov.bsky.social:
"My trials were conducted very unfairly. No one was allowed into my hearings. They could not prove my guilt in any way.
I ask all honest people to share that I am innocent and that I was imprisoned for wanting peace and justice."
"My trials were conducted very unfairly. No one was allowed into my hearings. They could not prove my guilt in any way.
I ask all honest people to share that I am innocent and that I was imprisoned for wanting peace and justice."
September 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Message from @smdov.bsky.social:
"My trials were conducted very unfairly. No one was allowed into my hearings. They could not prove my guilt in any way.
I ask all honest people to share that I am innocent and that I was imprisoned for wanting peace and justice."
"My trials were conducted very unfairly. No one was allowed into my hearings. They could not prove my guilt in any way.
I ask all honest people to share that I am innocent and that I was imprisoned for wanting peace and justice."
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Italian media published an article about @ulviyyaali.bsky.social with my, @cesarebarberis.bsky.social and Ulviyya's mother's comments included.
altreconomia.it/il-silenzio-...
altreconomia.it/il-silenzio-...
Il silenzio europeo sulla feroce repressione in Azerbaigian
Il presidente Aliyev ha imposto un’ulteriore stretta sulle libertà. Giornalisti, attivisti e oppositori vengono arrestati e torturati. A un anno dalla Cop29 l’Ue continua a non battere ciglio, così co...
altreconomia.it
September 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Italian media published an article about @ulviyyaali.bsky.social with my, @cesarebarberis.bsky.social and Ulviyya's mother's comments included.
altreconomia.it/il-silenzio-...
altreconomia.it/il-silenzio-...
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While the peace pledge between Azerbaijan and Armenia exists on paper, Azerbaijani activists and scholars argue that putting it into practice and undoing decades of institutionalised anti-Armenian sentiment is something different altogether.
oc-media.org/azerbaijans-...
oc-media.org/azerbaijans-...
Azerbaijan’s peace pledge to fight hate speech faces skepticism from activists and legal scholars
Despite a peace deal clause banning hate speech, critics say entrenched anti-Armenian propaganda could hinder real change.
oc-media.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
While the peace pledge between Azerbaijan and Armenia exists on paper, Azerbaijani activists and scholars argue that putting it into practice and undoing decades of institutionalised anti-Armenian sentiment is something different altogether.
oc-media.org/azerbaijans-...
oc-media.org/azerbaijans-...
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Finally got the physical copy of my first book!
#DeFactoStates #Recognition #Diplomacy
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @fggaleiden.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
#DeFactoStates #Recognition #Diplomacy
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @fggaleiden.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
August 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Finally got the physical copy of my first book!
#DeFactoStates #Recognition #Diplomacy
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @fggaleiden.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
#DeFactoStates #Recognition #Diplomacy
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @fggaleiden.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
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🅾️ Opinion: Azerbaijan should align its actions to its commitment to peace — free Bahruz Samadov now.
oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
Opinion | My friend Bahruz is in prison for advocating peace — now that’s state policy
Azerbaijan should align its actions to its commitment to peace — free Bahruz Samadov now.
oc-media.org
August 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🅾️ Opinion: Azerbaijan should align its actions to its commitment to peace — free Bahruz Samadov now.
oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
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oc-media.org/opinion-my-f... Gulnara Mehdiyeva hits the nail on the head: "If Armenia & Azerbaijan have initialled a text that condemns intolerance & racial hatred, then jailing a researcher whose work has been about refusing hatred is an error that must be corrected." Bahruz Samadov must be freed.
https://oc-media.org/opinion-my-friend-bahruz-is-in-prison-for-advocating-peace-now-thats-state-policy/"If
August 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
oc-media.org/opinion-my-f... Gulnara Mehdiyeva hits the nail on the head: "If Armenia & Azerbaijan have initialled a text that condemns intolerance & racial hatred, then jailing a researcher whose work has been about refusing hatred is an error that must be corrected." Bahruz Samadov must be freed.
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🅾️ OPINION: One year after OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov was arrested, Azerbaijani activist Gulnara Mehdiyeva argues that his release is necessary to make the new Azerbaijani state policy of peace believable.
➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
August 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🅾️ OPINION: One year after OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov was arrested, Azerbaijani activist Gulnara Mehdiyeva argues that his release is necessary to make the new Azerbaijani state policy of peace believable.
➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
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Thrilled that my article on treason and political community is (finally) out with International Political Sociology!
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August 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Thrilled that my article on treason and political community is (finally) out with International Political Sociology!
academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
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www.chathamhouse.org/2025/08/us-i... My latest, on the Washington peace summit between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
US intervention opens new page in Armenia–Azerbaijan peace talks but challenges remain
Regional powers and domestic politics threaten the persuasive optics of the White House summit.
www.chathamhouse.org
August 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/08/us-i... My latest, on the Washington peace summit between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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#OpenAccess from our new issue -
The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling - cup.org/4iM0Wnw
- Todd H. Hall & Patrick James
The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling - cup.org/4iM0Wnw
- Todd H. Hall & Patrick James
August 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#OpenAccess from our new issue -
The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling - cup.org/4iM0Wnw
- Todd H. Hall & Patrick James
The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling - cup.org/4iM0Wnw
- Todd H. Hall & Patrick James
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Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
NEW -
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
August 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
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My first book, which discusses Sub-State Recognition, & co-authored with @gezimvisoka.bsky.social, is out now!
#DeFactoStates
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#DeFactoStates
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My first book, which discusses Sub-State Recognition, & co-authored with @gezimvisoka.bsky.social, is out now!
#DeFactoStates
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#DeFactoStates
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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So far, once while being held at the State Security Service and once in Temporary Detention Center, he attempted suicide, and both times someone saved him at the last moment. He said that on the third attempt he will kill himself and end his life.
August 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
So far, once while being held at the State Security Service and once in Temporary Detention Center, he attempted suicide, and both times someone saved him at the last moment. He said that on the third attempt he will kill himself and end his life.
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News from Bahruz Samadov:
He met his grandmother today. He told her that since the peace treaty was signed, being unjustly kept in prison hurts him even more now. He said he cannot find peace for himself in the cell.
He met his grandmother today. He told her that since the peace treaty was signed, being unjustly kept in prison hurts him even more now. He said he cannot find peace for himself in the cell.
August 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
News from Bahruz Samadov:
He met his grandmother today. He told her that since the peace treaty was signed, being unjustly kept in prison hurts him even more now. He said he cannot find peace for himself in the cell.
He met his grandmother today. He told her that since the peace treaty was signed, being unjustly kept in prison hurts him even more now. He said he cannot find peace for himself in the cell.
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Without robust democratic debate, any peace deal risks long-term instability.
Western actors, often blind to nuance, may tolerate democratic erosion when geopolitics demand it.
(20/20)
Western actors, often blind to nuance, may tolerate democratic erosion when geopolitics demand it.
(20/20)
August 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Without robust democratic debate, any peace deal risks long-term instability.
Western actors, often blind to nuance, may tolerate democratic erosion when geopolitics demand it.
(20/20)
Western actors, often blind to nuance, may tolerate democratic erosion when geopolitics demand it.
(20/20)
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Recent euphoria over the DC peace summit between Trump, Aliyev, and Pashinyan is premature.
No treaty was signed—only initialed. Symbolic, yes, but far from conclusive in a conflict that has resisted resolution for decades. (1/20)
No treaty was signed—only initialed. Symbolic, yes, but far from conclusive in a conflict that has resisted resolution for decades. (1/20)
August 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Recent euphoria over the DC peace summit between Trump, Aliyev, and Pashinyan is premature.
No treaty was signed—only initialed. Symbolic, yes, but far from conclusive in a conflict that has resisted resolution for decades. (1/20)
No treaty was signed—only initialed. Symbolic, yes, but far from conclusive in a conflict that has resisted resolution for decades. (1/20)