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aWith his exciting narratives and compelling analysis of the
twentieth century's aCaucasian Wars, a Zurcher brings events on the
periphery of Europe into the mainstream of social science and
comparative politics. Disputing existing explanations of internal
wars, he shows that rather than mountainous terrain or poverty, a
more powerful causal explanation of civil bloodletting can be
located in state capacities and the abilities of combatants to
finance their struggles. This book is sure to stir debate.a
--Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan
aDemocracy is commonly paired with order while ethnic violence
is paired with strife and chaos. The Post-Soviet Wars painstakingly
documents that both violence and stability have institutional
reasons and must be organized politically by specific human
agencies. This lesson is obviously relevant to the contemporary
discussion of democratization as well as afailinga states, let
alone the effects wrought by the American war on terror.a
--Georgi Derlugyan, author of "Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the
Caucasus: A World-System Biography"
The Post-Soviet Wars is a comparative account of the organized
violence in the Caucusus region, looking at four key areas:
Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Dagestan. Zurcheras
goal is to understand the origin and nature of the violence in
these regions, the response and suppression from the post-Soviet
regime and the resulting outcomes, all with an eye toward
understanding why some conflicts turned violent, whereas others
not. Notably, in Dagestan actual violent conflict has not erupted,
an exception of political stability for theregion. The book
provides a brief history of the region, particularly the collapse
of the Soviet Union and the resulting changes that took place in
the wake of this toppling. Zurcher carefully looks at the
conditions within each region -- economic, ethnic, religious, and
political -- to make sense of why some turned to violent conflict
and some did not and what the future of the region might
portend.
This important volume provides both an overview of the region
that is both up-to-date and comprehensive as well as an accessible
understanding of the current scholarship on mobilization and
violence.
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