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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Explainer: The Chechen Conflict
Although violence has declined significantly in recent years, foreign fighters and ideologues continue to reference “jihad” in Chechnya and many Russian-speaking fighters in Syria have previous experience of the North[…]
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Making jihad or making money? Understanding the transformation of Dagestan’s jamaats into organised crime groups
Journal Abstract While terrorist and insurgent groups have often combined anti-state subversion with ‘purely‘ criminal activities in order to obtain the financial means to wage their ideological struggle, little is[…]
Retaliation in Rebellion: The Missing Link to Explaining Insurgent Violence in Dagestan
Journal abstract This article posits that the remnants of archaic sociocultural norms, particularly the honour-imposed custom of retaliation, play a crucial role in the process of insurgent engagement in Russia’s[…]
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When radicals turn violent: learning from the study of ‘cults’
This post was written for the Westminster Faith Debates for their debate on ‘What have we learned about radicalisation?‘ and is reproduced here with their permission. I met Anzor Astemirov[…]
Religion, Extremism and Radicalisation in post-communist Russia: issues, public policy and research
In the past two decades Russia has seen a proliferation of religiously motivated ideologies, groups, movements and actions aimed at radical solutions of perceived social and political issues. The appeal[…]
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Radical Islam in the former Soviet Union
An informative collection of papers, focusing on political aspects of Islamic radicalism in the former Soviet Union.
