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- ISBN 9780765620286
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Robert Bruce Ware Since completing his doctorate at Oxford University, Robert Bruce Ware has conducted field research in the North Caucasus, and has authored numerous articles on the region in scholarly and popular publications. He is a professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.,
Enver Kisriev Enver Kisriev, a Dagestani sociologist, is studying the impact made by traditional institutions of Caucasian communities on the nature of modern political processes. With roots in the Lezgin town of Akhty, he was born in 1947 in Makhachkala, where he graduated from the Dagestan State University majoring in history. In 1972–75 he was a postgraduate in sociology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. After graduation he continued his research work in the Department of Sociology of the Dagestan branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1979 he defended his thesis titled “National and International in Ethnic and Cultural Processes in Dagestan.” In 1988 he became director of the department. In 1994–98, he was an adviser to the chairperson of the Dagestani Parliament while simultaneously continuing his research at the Dagestani Academy of Sciences. In 2001, he moved to Moscow to work at the Moscow branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2003 he became head of the Sector for Caucasian Studies at the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of more than 200 publications.
