Ethno-nationalism, Islam and the state in the Caucasus
Subtitle: post-Soviet disorder
By: edited by Moshe Gammer.
Contributors: Gammer, M.
Series: Central Asian studies series -- 9
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415423458
Subjects: Ethnic conflict -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern; Islam and politics -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern; Caucasus Northern (Russia) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Informal power structures in Russia and ethno-political conflict in the northern Caucasus / Maxim U. Barbashin; title: Islam and the legal system in the north-western Caucasus / Irina L. Babich; title: "Re-Islamisation" and ethno-nationalism : the Circassians (Adyghe) of the north-western Caucasus and their diaspora / Chen Bram; title: The Republic of Adygheia : perceptions of rights, freedoms and life chances of ordinary people / Cemre Erciyes; title: The events of November 1996 in Kabardino-Balkaria and their prehistory / Julietta Meskhidze; title: Russian policies towards Islamic extremism in the northern Caucasus and destabilization in Kabardino-Balkaria / Walter Richmond; title: Ideology and conflict : Chechen political nationalism prior to, and during ten years of war / Ekaterina Sokirianskaia; title: The Orstkhoy revival : identity and border dispute in the northern Caucasus / Victor A. Shnirelman; title: "I can fight, army against army" : the 1994-1996 Russo-Chechen War, strategies and misconceptions / Yagil Henkin; title: Allah's foot soldiers. An assessment of the role of foreign fighters and al-Qaeda in the Chechen insurgency / Brian Glyn Williams; title: From the challenge of nationalism to the challenge of Islam : the case of Daghestan / Moshe Gammer; title: "Wahhabis," democrats and everything in between. The development of Islamic activism in post-Soviet Azerbaijan / Sofie Bedford; title: Demography of north Caucasian Jewry : a note on population dynamics and shifting identity / Mark Tolts.