|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the
sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape
irregular warfare. Despite being a common driver of communal
violence, blood revenge has received little attention from
scholars. With many civil wars and insurgencies occurring in areas
where the custom lingers, strengthening our understanding of blood
revenge is essential for discerning how conflicts change and
evolve. Drawing upon extensive multidisciplinary evidence, this
book is the first in the literature on civil war and insurgency to
analyse the impact of blood revenge and its modern remnants on
irregular warfare. Even when blood revenge undergoes erosion, its
unregulated version still shapes the social fabric of insurgency,
although in different ways than its institutionalised counterpart.
At times of political instability, the presence of a culture of
retaliation weighs heavily on the dynamics of violent mobilisation,
target selection, recruitment, and disengagement. The book brings
in evidence from dozens of conflicts, providing unprecedented
insights into how a better understanding of blood revenge can
improve military blueprints for irregular warfare. This book will
be of much interest to students of insurgency, terrorism, military
and strategic studies, anthropology, and sociology, as well as to
decision-makers and irregular warfare professionals.
The book explores the nature of Chechen society and Chechen
ethno-psychology, the emergence of Chechen nationalism, and the
predominantly violent relationships between Russia and the Chechens
throughout modern history in order to better explain the most
recent periods of confrontation. It concentrates on the second
Russo-Chechen campaign and subsequent terrorist attacks in Moscow
and Beslan and the spreading of violence throughout the North
Caucasus. The book draws on extensive research and includes an
introduction by Anatol Lieven. This is the first book to assess the
most recent violence in Chechnya in the wider context of cultural,
social and political changes in the North Caucasus and Russia. The
study enlightens such key phenomena for understanding the ongoing
violence as the North Caucasian version of Jihadism, Caucasophobia
and Chechenophobia in contemporary Russia, paying attention to
Moscow's controversial policies of Normalisation in Chechnya. The
author also investigates the situation of Chechen resistance and
the expansion of the conflict into the neighboring areas of the
North Caucasus.
The book explores the nature of Chechen society and Chechen
ethno-psychology, the emergence of Chechen nationalism, and the
predominantly violent relationships between Russia and the Chechens
throughout modern history in order to better explain the most
recent periods of confrontation. It concentrates on the second
Russo-Chechen campaign and subsequent terrorist attacks in Moscow
and Beslan and the spreading of violence throughout the North
Caucasus. The book draws on extensive research and includes an
introduction by Anatol Lieven. This is the first book to assess the
most recent violence in Chechnya in the wider context of cultural,
social and political changes in the North Caucasus and Russia. The
study enlightens such key phenomena for understanding the ongoing
violence as the North Caucasian version of Jihadism, Caucasophobia
and Chechenophobia in contemporary Russia, paying attention to
Moscow's controversial policies of Normalisation in Chechnya. The
author also investigates the situation of Chechen resistance and
the expansion of the conflict into the neighboring areas of the
North Caucasus.
|
|