Guide: The Caucasus Emirate
The Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz) was the main insurgent group operating in the North Caucasus between 2007 and 2015. However, the deaths of key ideologues, intense pressure from the security[…]
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Voices of the “Caucasus Emirate”: Mapping and Analyzing North Caucasus Insurgency Websites
Journal abstract This article looks at Internet use by insurgent groups in the North Caucasus in the context of a regional diffusion of violence. Using a mixed methods research design[…]
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Broader, vaguer, weaker: The evolving ideology of the Caucasus Emirate leadership
Journal abstract In October 2007, veteran Chechen field commander Dokka Umarov proclaimed the formation of the Caucasus Emirate (IK), formalising the victory of the North Caucasus insurgency’s Islamist wing over[…]
Between Caucasus and caliphate: the splintering of the North Caucasus insurgency
Journal abstract In December 2014, several high-ranking field commanders from the Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz, IK), an insurgent and designated terrorist group in Russia’s North Caucasus, pledged allegiance to the[…]
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