ABOUT THE AUTHOR EMIL ASLAN SOULEIMANOV is an associate professor of political science at the Department of Security Studies, Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Repub-lic. Dr. Souleimanov's current research focuses on the political ethnography of insurgency and counterinsurgency in Russia's North Caucasus. He is the co-author of The Individual Disengagement of Avengers, Nationalists, and Jihadists (with Huseyn Aliyev, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict: Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia Wars Reconsidered (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in International Security, World Politics, International Politics, Journal of Strategic Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Middle East Policy, and others.
