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List of contents
Introduction: Security and democracy in the Caucasus: the societal dimension --Kevork Oskanian, Derek Averre and Laure Delcour
Chapter 1: The tip of the democratisation spear? Role and importance of the Georgian Armed Forces in the context of democratisation and European integration - Marion Kipiani
Chapter 2: Russian governance of the North Caucasus: Dilemmas of force and inclusion - Julie Wilhelmsen
Chapter 3: Overcoming the status quo in the unrecognised states of the South Caucasus: internal and external limitations - Roxana Andrei
Chapter 4: Transformation policies and local modernisation initiatives in the North Caucasus - V.А. Kolosov, O.I. Vendina, A.A. Gritsenko, M.V.Zotova, O.B. Glezer, A.A.Panin, A.B. Sebentsov, and V.N. Streletskii
Chapter 5: The making of groups, boundaries and cleavages in the South Caucasus: from macro to micro dynamics - Giulia Prelz Oltramonti
Chapter 6: Arctic labour migration, vulnerability and social change in the South Caucasus: The case of Azerbaijanis in the polar cities of Murmansk and Norilsk - Sophie Hohmann
Chapter 7: War veterans of Caucasian conflicts: diverging trajectories of war-related resources in ‘post-conflict’ situations - Aude Merlin and Taline Papazian
Chapter 8: ‘Exorcism of Cultural Otherness’: The Refugee Women in Post-Soviet Armenia - Evia Hovhannisyan
About the author
Kevork Oskanian is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
Derek Averre is a Reader at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
Summary
The Caucasus, including Russia’s North Caucasus, continues to be an area of potential instability and conflict. This book, based on extensive original research, explores in detail at both the local and regional level how state and society interact to encourage security and democracy in the area.
