Reflections on the Chechen Conflict: Geopolitics, Timing and Transformations

Autor:	Babak Rezvani
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Sociology and Political Science Political economy Law Geography Planning and Development language Chechen Religious conflict Sociology Geopolitics language.human_language
Zdroj:	Middle Eastern Studies. 50:870-890
ISSN:	1743-7881 0026-3206
DOI:	10.1080/00263206.2014.933419
Popis:	The Chechen Conflict is the most fatal and protracted conflict in the post-Soviet space. While it is the most discussed conflict there, it is also the least understood. Many contradicting accounts of it exist, and still many questions remain unanswered. One reason is that the nature of this conflict has changed over time. Unlike what many - particularly Western - analysts think, it is not a religious conflict. It began as an ethno-nationalist separatist conflict but only later was it infiltrated by extremist Salafis/Wahhabis. At this moment a war is going on between the local Chechen and the central Russian governments against the Salafi/Wahhabi Emirate of the Caucasus. Chechnya is the only autonomous region in Russia in which a separatist movement had been successful. The possible reasons are the peculiarities of the Caucasus; especially its mosaic type of ethnogeographic configuration and the traumatic past of many of its peoples. Another important factor in the explanation of such a separatist conflict...
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