Economic Exploitation during the Occupation of Karabakh: A UNEC Scholar’s Monograph Published by a Scopus-Indexed Publisher in the USA

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A monograph entitled Economic Activities during the Occupation of Karabakh – A Case Study (1992–2020): Decades of Property Exploitation in an Occupied Economy by UNEC young scholar, Head of the UNEC Council of Women Researchers, PhD in Economics Nargiz Hajiyeva, has been published in New York (USA) by NOVA Publishing, a Scopus-indexed academic publisher.

The monograph presents a comprehensive and systematic scholarly analysis of the illegal economic activities carried out in Karabakh during the period of occupation. The study examines the economic and legal aspects of processes such as illegal import-export operations conducted during the occupation, illicit cross-border transactions, unlawful patents and trademarks, violations of intellectual property and property rights, as well as the illegal exploitation of natural resources.

In the monograph titled “Economic Activities during the Occupation of Karabakh (1992–2020): A Case Study of Property Exploitation in Occupied Economies”, a new economic concept—“occupied economies”—is formulated and introduced as a theoretical framework.

The scientific editors of the monograph include UNEC Rector, Professor Adalat Muradov; UNEC Professor Irshad Karimov; Professor John Branch from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); Simon Grima, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Finance at the University of Malta; Professor Kiran Sood of Chitkara University (India); and Joseph Salomonsen, Head of the Democratic Resilience Department at the ARKIVET Peace and Human Rights Institute (Norway).

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