He was the main opposition candidate in the 2013 Azerbaijani presidential election where he came in second with 5.53% of votes.
Jamil Hasanli was born on January 15, 1952, in Aghalykend, Bilasuvar District, Azerbaijan SSR.
After finishing secondary school in Alar, Jalilabad, he entered Azerbaijan State University's History program in 1970.
After completing university, he worked in Təzəkənd village, Jalilabad District as teacher of history.
In 1977 he entered doctoral courses at Baku State University and studied the modern histories of countries of Europe and the Americas.
In 1990 he became a docent, and in 1992 defended his dissertation, "Azerbaijan Republic in the system of international relations".
From 1994 to 2004 he was a member of the President's Expert Council of High Accreditation Commission of Azerbaijan.
Professor Hasanli was a presidential candidate from the National Council of Democratic Forces of Azerbaijan in October 2013.
He was a History and Public Policy Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 2011.
He is the author of 28 monographs and books and more than 100 articles, printed in Azerbaijan, Russia, the USA, Turkey, Iran and other countries.
[1][2] His books have been published in Azerbaijan, Russia, the USA, Turkey, Iran and other countries.
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006; Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945-1953.
Hasanli’s book, Foreign Policy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 1918-1920: The Difficult Road to Western Integration, (M.E.
Sharpe, New York, 2014) narrates the tumultuous path of the first Azerbaijan Republic toward winning international recognition.
Based on the archived documents of several countries, the author reconstructs a vivid image of the Azerbaijani political elite’s quest for nationhood after the collapse of the Russian colonial system.
With a particular focus on the liberation of Baku from Bolshevik factions, relations with regional neighbors, and the arduous road to recognition of Azerbaijan’s independence by the Paris Peace Conference, the author provides valuable insights into the history of the South Caucasus region and the dynamics of the post-World War I era.
The struggle for Baku Oil at the end of the World War I. Caspian Crossroads, No.
Reflection of the US-Soviet Post-War Confrontation according to the Released Russian Archival Documents.
La prima crisi della guerra fredda: Mosca e il petrolio iraniano (1943-1946).
Ventunesimo Secolo, 2007, #13 (di Jamil Hasanli e Vladislav Zubok) Italia, Roma 17.
The “Turkish Crisis” of the Cold War and the South Caucasian republics.
Azerbaijan at the Crossroads of Epochs: The First Attempt to Join the Free World (1917-1920).
The Recognition of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan at the Versailles Peace Conference.
Chruschtschows Selbstinszenierung als Außenpolitiker Sowjetische Propaganda über den Wiener Gipfel am Beispiel Aserbaidschan.
The historiography of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic: Political conjecture and reality.
Historiography and Historical Understandings of Asian States in the Former Soviet Bloc.
Der Kampf um das Erdöl im Nahen und Mittleren Osten.
“The Iranian Epopee” of the Bolsheviks: The Deepening Conflict in the Southern Caspian (1920-1921).
The Relations Turkey with the Soviet Union during the Cold War period.
Alimardan bey Topchubashov: Life, Epoch, Comrades-in- Arms.