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Like other majority Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union, the
republic of Dagestan, on Russia's southern frontier, has become
contested territory in a hegemonic competition between Moscow and
resurgent Islam. In this authoritative book the leading experts on
Dagestan provide a path breaking study of this volatile state far
from the world's gaze. The largest and most populous of the North
Caucasian republics, bordered on the west by Chechnya and on the
east by the Caspian Sea, Dagastan is almost completely mountainous.
With no majority nationality, the republic developed a distinctive
system of calibrated power relations among ethnic groups and with
Moscow, a system that has been undermined by the spillover of the
wars in Chechnya, Wahhabi and Islamist recruiting efforts targeting
youth, and Moscow's reassertion of the 'power vertical'.
Underdevelopment, high birthrates, transiting pipelines, and the
rising incidence of terrorist violence and assassinations add to
the explosive potential of the region. Authors Ware and Kisriev
combine analysis of the dynamics of domination and resistance, and
the distinctive forms of social organization characteristic of
mountain societies that may be applicable to other areas such as
Afghanistan. They draw on decades of field research, interviews,
and data to offer unique perspective on the civilizational
collision course under way in the Caucasus today.
Like other majority Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union, the
republic of Dagestan, on Russia's southern frontier, has become
contested territory in a hegemonic competition between Moscow and
resurgent Islam. In this authoritative book the leading experts on
Dagestan provide a path breaking study of this volatile state far
from the world's gaze. The largest and most populous of the North
Caucasian republics, bordered on the west by Chechnya and on the
east by the Caspian Sea, Dagastan is almost completely mountainous.
With no majority nationality, the republic developed a distinctive
system of calibrated power relations among ethnic groups and with
Moscow, a system that has been undermined by the spillover of the
wars in Chechnya, Wahhabi and Islamist recruiting efforts targeting
youth, and Moscow's reassertion of the 'power vertical'.
Underdevelopment, high birthrates, transiting pipelines, and the
rising incidence of terrorist violence and assassinations add to
the explosive potential of the region. Authors Ware and Kisriev
combine analysis of the dynamics of domination and resistance, and
the distinctive forms of social organization characteristic of
mountain societies that may be applicable to other areas such as
Afghanistan. They draw on decades of field research, interviews,
and data to offer unique perspective on the civilizational
collision course under way in the Caucasus today.
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