Problems of the development of Civil Society in Oil-producing countries: a lecture given to an invited audience, Azerbaijan, June 2006

In June 2006, William Arthurs was invited to give a lecture in Nabran, Azerbaijan on the problems of the development of civil society in oil-producing countries. The prepared text of the lecture (PDF: 115 Kb) and the slideshow (PDF: 166 Kb) can be downloaded. The lecture was given in a slightly different form.

Photograph: Our chairman William Arthurs was British Petroleum's guest at the Sangachal terminal, Azerbaijan, photographed here in front of the mosaic commemorating the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline (which started operation May 2005, formally commissioned on 13 July 2006)

Photograph: Azeri students in Nabran

Photograph: Ziba Norman and William Arthurs of the Transatlantic Institute present the Free Minds Association with a copy of Sir Isaiah Berlin's 'Political Ideas in the Romantic Age'