General: By enhancing regional cooperation and networking, the Symposium aims to contribute to the growing community of scholars in Azerbaijan and the region who are interested in regional politics, economics and international relationships.
The specific objectives are to:
- Promote active participation by scholars of international relations in the political and public life of the region.
- Reaffirm and reinforce the role of young students of international relations in academic discourse, and to direct their activities towards more efficient and Western-oriented approaches to research and publication.
- Assess the achievements of regionally-known international scholars, while ensuring the emergence of a new generation of independent experts in the fields of international relations, politics and public sciences.
- Extend processes of regional cooperation on international relations, opening them up to new subjects and new participants.
- Support dialogue within the South Caucasus in order to implement more vigorous debate between scholars and foreign experts directly or indirectly engaged in the region.
