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Akhmad Kadyrov
Andrew Foxall
Anton Popov
Arbi Barayev
Brian Grodsky
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Cerwyn Moore
Civil Society
civil society development
Cossack Identity
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Ethnic Caucasians
Ethnic conflict
Ethno National Principles
ethno-religious conflict
Eurasian geopolitics
Galina Yemelianova
Georgia's Separatist Regions
Georgia’s Separatist Regions
History
Identity
Islam
Jeremy Smith
Karabakh Armenians
Karabakh Conflict
Krasnodar Krai
Lale Yalcin-Heckmann
Majlis Al Shura
national identity evolution
neo-Nazi Attacks
NGO influence in Caucasus integration
NGOs
Nona Shahnazarian
North Caucasus
North Caucasus Republics
post-Soviet studies
qualitative regional analysis
Regionalism
Rose Revolution
Russian Military
Russo Chechen Conflict
Russo Chechen War
Shamil Basaev
South Caucasus
South Caucasus Region
South Ossetia
Suicide Attacks
Thomas de Waal
Tracey German
Ulrike Ziemer
Vicken Cheterian
Young Men
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415739672
  • Weight: 544g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Studies of the Caucasus in the West have been dominated by issues of security and ethnic conflict based on Eurocentric theoretical paradigms. By contrast, this volume offers contributions from researchers working within a range of disciplines, including history, social anthropology, sociology and cultural studies as well as international relations and security studies. Some of the contributions demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the region from ‘inside’, while others explore the issues within a wider Eurasian and global perspective. The volume examines the politically-defined division of the region into the North and South Caucasus, the evolution of national identity and citizenship, and the role of the NGOs in the development of civil society in the post-Soviet period. Its content demonstrates the advantages of an area studies inter-disciplinary approach to the study of the region and the importance of collaboration between Western and local researchers. It highlights the importance of the Caucasus as a geographical, political and civilisational entity and examines the historical, cultural, political, religious and psychological factors behind the region’s particular susceptibility to territorial and ethno-religious conflict. The book will be of benefit to scholars and students researching the Caucasus, Russia and the post-Soviet space. It will also appeal to policy-makers, NGO activists, journalists and a wider audience interested in this fascinating region.

This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
About
Nino Kemoklidze is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham. Her dissertation topic concerns problems of nationalism and ethnic violence in Georgia. She was a visiting PhD researcher at Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), Sweden in 2013 and a guest researcher at the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs (NUPI) in 2010–2011. Cerwyn Moore is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Birmingham. He works on interpretive IR theory and conflict in the Caucasus and Central Asia. He has published widely on aspects of the conflicts in the North Caucasus in a host of peer reviewed journals and in a monograph, Contemporary Violence: Postmodern War in Kosovo and Chechnya (Manchester: MUP, 2010). Jeremy Smith is Professor of Russian History and Politics at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. He has recently completed projects on the Khrushchev era and on Georgian nationalism and Soviet power in the 1950s. His research focuses on the non-Russian nationalities of the Soviet Union, with especial emphasis on the South Caucasus region, and he is also part of a team providing commentary and insight into contemporary relations between Europe and Central Asian countries in the ‘EU-Central Asia Monitoring’ project. Galina Yemelianova is a Senior Lecturer in Eurasian Studies at the University of Birmingham. She heads the University of Birmingham Research Group on the Caucasus and Central Asia and teaches an MSc Pathway on the Caucasus and Central Asia. She has been researching history and contemporary politics in the Middle East and Muslim Eurasia for more than two decades.