State-Building as Lawfare Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya

"State-Building as Lawfare offers a unique study on how the state and other social forces regulate everyday life. Focusing on the case of Russian state presence in postwar Chechnya, the book explores how state and non-state legal systems are used to achieve political goals. Egor Lazarev applies this theory of state-building as lawfare to study how politicians and individuals navigate Russian state law, Sharia, and customary law in postwar Chechnya. The book addresses two interrelated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state legal systems at the expense of state law, and why do some members of repressed ethnic minorities choose to resolve their everyday disputes using state legal systems instead of non-state alternatives? By analyzing the legacies of the prolonged armed conflict of the 1990s and 2000s, Lazarev sheds an important light on state-building from above and below"--

Info autore

Egor Lazarev is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Riassunto

How does the state impose the rules that regulate everyday life? This book explores state-building as lawfare – the use of state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals – to analyze how Russian state law, Sharia law, and customary law interact in postwar Chechnya.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Egor Lazarev
• Editore: Cambridge Academic
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.04.2024
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9781009245944
• ISBN: 978-1-00-924594-4
• Illustrazioni: Worked examples or Exercises
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 561 g
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Categorie: Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political structure & processes, Political structure and processes, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Chechnya