His research interests include national security, ethnopolitics, strategy of ethnopolitical security. He was awarded his PhD by the Azerbaijan State University in 1986. Dr. Allahverdiyev has acquired extensive teaching experience at the Azerbaijani Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and The Baku Institute of Social Administration and Politics where he was the Dean of the School of Political Science between 1991 and 1998. He was the Academic Secretary of the Research Council at the Academy of Public Administration since its establishment in 1999 till 2004.