Individual Disengagement of Avengers, Nationalists, and Jihadists - Why Ex-Militants Choose to Abandon Violence in the North Caucasus

Informationen zum Autor Emil Aslan Souleimanov is Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Formerly, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard. Souleimanov has published extensively on the theory and practice of security, conflict, and politics, with emphasis on the Caucasus. Huseyn Aliyev has recently completed his PhD in Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His work focuses on informal institutions and practices, civil society, security and conflict studies. Klappentext Drawing on unique first-hand data from Russia's North Caucasus, this study is the first of its kind to detail the causes and contexts of individual disengagement of various types of militants: avengers, nationalists, and jihadists. It aims to considerably enhance our theoretical understanding of individual militants' incentives to abandon violence. Zusammenfassung Drawing on unique first-hand data from Russia's North Caucasus! this study is the first of its kind to detail the causes and contexts of individual disengagement of various types of militants: avengers! nationalists! and jihadists. It aims to considerably enhance our theoretical understanding of individual militants' incentives to abandon violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Theorizing Militant Disengagement 2. Conceptualizing Pathways to Individual Insurgent (Dis)Engagement 3. Chechnya and Dagestan: Ethnography, History and Conflicts 4. Individual Disengagement in Chechnya and Dagestan Conclusion

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• Autori: H Aliyev, H. Aliyev, Huseyn Aliyev, Souleimanov, E Souleimanov, E. Souleimanov, Emil Souleimanov, Emil Aliyev Souleimanov
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.11.2014
• EAN: 9781137498823
• ISBN: 978-1-137-49882-3
• Pagine: 112
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche comparate e internazionali; Internationale Beziehungen, Europa, C, Peace, Krieg und Verteidigung, Politik und Staat, Russia, Conflict Studies, European Politics, Political Science, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, International Relations, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Political science & theory, Terrorism, Political Violence, Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Russia—Politics and government, Peace and Conflict Studies, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie