Egor Lazarev (Connecticut Yale University)

State-Building as Lawfare

Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya

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Produktbeschreibung

How does the state impose the rules that regulate everyday life? This book explores state-building as lawfare â the use of state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals â to analyze how Russian state law, Sharia law, and customary law interact in postwar Chechnya.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 345
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781009245944
• ISBN-10: 1009245945
• Artikelnr.: 70364987

Autorenporträt

Egor Lazarev is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Theory and Ethnography: 1. State-building as lawfare: the view from above and from below
2. The field: ethnography of legal pluralism in postwar Chechnya
Part II. Lawfare and Political Order: 3. The Chechen way: lawfare under imperial and Soviet rule
4. 'There are no camels in Chechnya!' lawfare during the independence period
5. 'We will use every resource!' jurisdictional politics in postwar Chechnya
Part III. Lawfare and Social Order: 6. Laws in conflict: hybrid legal order in contemporary Chechnya
7. 'People need law:' demand for social order after conflict
8: Chechen women go to court: war and women's lawfare
Conclusion
References.