Ethno-nationalism, Islam and the state in the Caucasus : post-Soviet disorder / edited by Moshe Gammer

Published:: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Physical Description:: xvii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Gammer, M.

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Central Asian studies series ; 9

Contents:

Informal power structures in Russia and ethno-political conflict in the northern Caucasus / Maxim U. Barbashin -- Islam and the legal system in the northwestern Caucasus / Irina L. Babich -- 'Re-Islamisation' and ethno-nationalism : the Circassians (Adyghe) of the northwestern Caucasus and their diaspora / Chen Bram -- The Republic of Adygheia : perceptions of rights, freedoms and life chances of ordinary people / Cemre Erciyes -- The events of November 1996 in Kabardino-Balkaria and their prehistory / Julietta Meskhidze -- Russian policies towards Islamic extremism in the northern Caucasus and destabilization in Kabardino-Balkaria / Walter Richmond -- Ideology and conflict : Chechen political nationalism prior to, and during, ten years of war / Ekaterina Sokirianskaia -- The Orstkhoy revival : identity and border dispute in the northern Caucasus / Victor A. Shnirelman -- 'I can fight, army against army' : the 1994-1996 Russo-Chechen War, strategies and misconceptions / Yagil Henkin -- Allah's foot soldiers : an assessment of the role of foreign fighters and Al-Qaʻida in the Chechen insurgency / Brian Glyn Williams -- From the challenge of nationalism to the challenge of Islam : the case of Daghestan / Moshe Gammer -- 'Wahhabis,' Democrats and everything in between : the development of Islamic activism in post-Soviet Azerbaijan / Sofie Bedford -- Demography of north Caucasian Jewry : a note on population dynamics and shifting identity / Mark Tolts.

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ISBN:

9780415423458 (hbk. : alk. paper), 0415423457 (hbk. : alk. paper), 9780203933794 (ebk.), and 0203933796 (ebk.)

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Includes index.

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