AZERBAIJAN AUTHORITIES BREAK UP NDI-EU SUBVERSIVES TRAINING SESSION http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/azerbaijan-authoritarian-learning-good-democracy-training-bad/
“Without explanations police evicted the civil society activists (SUBVERSIVES) from the Sahil hotel where they stayed and planned to conduct a training session to raise the skills of citizens in governance as part of a project funded by the European Union and the National Democratic Institute,” one report said.But how to explain the regime’s ability to withstand the adverse effects of oil revenue shortfalls? In yet another instance of authoritarian learning, the regime learnt impost lessons in oil revenue management from Norway and the international financial institutions, Guliyev argues: The regime was able to mitigate the adversity of oil revenues by learning to cope with it. The availability of foreign models as well as expert advice facilitated a policy transfer. The government established an insulated “isle of transparency” in the key policy domain of revenue management. As a recent analysis of authoritarian learning suggests, he notes, “Modern authoritarians have successfully honed new techniques, methods, and formulas for preserving power, refashioning dictatorship for the modern age.”
[ed notes:they must be broken up,as these foreign institutions promote regime change,and pay so called activists to organize coups and colour revolutions...im not defending that president or govt,but certainly the NDI and EU have no business operating anywhere in any part of the world,not abroad nor in their home countries...these groups and their paid and trained agents speak critically against regimes and govt officials that they dont like but at same time have no problem endorsing their own puppet dictators such as ex president of Georgia,or gulf monarchies..F# them!Their plots in Azerbaijan are two fold control of resources,and making it a base to destabilize Iran!