Reshaping the South Caucasus offers a chance to end decades of hostility and open new avenues for cooperation with the West. But peace between nations should not mask repression within them. If Azerbaijan wants international legitimacy, it must reckon with its treatment of its own citizens — beginning with the case of eminent scholar Gubad Ibadoghlu .

Ibadoghlu is one of Azerbaijan’s most respected economists. For decades, he has promoted transparency, accountability, peace, and democratic reform — values his government has found inconvenient. He has taught at Rutgers University, the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and the London School of Economics, shaping students and contributing to global debates on governance. A Rutgers historian nominated him for the Nobel Peace Pr

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