Dr. Hamid Shahanaghi, Director of the South Azerbaijan Center for Strategic Studies (SACSS), is an Azerbaijani sociologist and strategist. His research and publications primarily focus on the sociology of identity, public diplomacy, civil resistance, and cultural policy.
He is the author of "Geography of Discrimination: Structural Inequality at the Heart of the Modern Iranian Nation-State" (2024) and “Identity and Resistance: A Sociological Approach to Civil Resistance in South Azerbaijan” (2025). He also has a forthcoming book titled “South Azerbaijan and the Theory of Remedial Secession.”