Anvar Ismayilli is the research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He holds MA degree on International Relations from Wroclaw University, Poland. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the Institute for European Studies in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. His primary research focus is on problems of political and economic integration processes in the South Caucasus, EU studies, and emerging geopolitical trends in Eurasia.