On 7 October 2026, Gunel Madadli, a lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at Khazar University, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in Political Science at Jagiellonian University in Poland, earning a distinction.

Her dissertation, entitled “A Gendered Approach to Foreign Policy: The Case Study of Georgia in the Framework of Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy,” examines the role of gender in foreign policy, focusing on Georgia within the framework of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy.