Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus (eBook, ePUB)

Post-Soviet Disorder
Redaktion: Gammer, Moshe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crises and instability, and its critical strategic and economic importance, is increasingly at the focus of the world's attention. This book discusses the complexities and interplay among important forces at work in the region, including different brands of Islam, nationalisms, ethnic identities, local bureaucracies, Moscow's policies and influences from the outside.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134098521
• Artikelnr.: 38267798

Autorenporträt

Moshe Gammer is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Muslim Resistance to the Tsar (1994) and of The Lone Wolf and the Baer (2005) and the editor of these books, also published by Routledge: Political Thought and Political History (2003), The Caspian Region. Vol. I: A Re-emerging Region ; Vol.II: The Caucasus (2004) and Community, Identity and the State (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Informal Power Structures in Russia and Ethno-Political Conflict in the
Northern Caucasus Maxim U. Barbashin 2. Islam and the Legal System in the
North-Western Caucasus Irina L. Babich 3. 'Re-Islamisation' and
Ethno-Nationalism: The Circassians (Adyghe) of the North-Western Caucasus
and their Diaspora Chen Bram 4. The Republic of Adygheia: Perceptions of
Rights, Freedoms and Life Chances of Ordinary People Cemre Erciyes 5. The
Events of November 1996 in Kabardino-Balkaria and their Prehistory
Julietta Meskhidze 6. Russian Policies towards Islamic Extremism in the
Northern Caucasus and Destabilization in Kabardino-Balkaria Walter Richmond
7. Ideology and Conflict: Chechen Political Nationalism Prior to, and
During Ten Years of War Ekaterina Sokirianskaia 8. The Orstkhoy Revival:
Identity and Border Dispute in the Northern Caucasus Victor A. Shnirelman
9. 'I Can Fight, Army against Army': The 1994-1996 Russo-Chechen War,
Strategies and Misconceptions Yagil Henkin 10. Allah's Foot Soldiers. An
Assessment of the Role of Foreign Fighters and Al-Qaeda in the Chechen
Insurgency Brian Glyn Williams 11. From the Challenge of Nationalism to the
Challenge of Islam: The Case of Daghestan Moshe Gammer 12. 'Wahhabis',
Democrats and Everything in Between. The Development of Islamic Activism in
Post-Soviet Azerbaijan Sofie Bedford 13. Demography of North Caucasian
Jewry: A Note on Population Dynamics and Shifting Identity Mark Tolts