Security, Society and the State in the Caucasus

ISBN-13: 9780367664107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 190 str.

Kevork Oskanian; Derek Averre

Opis

The Caucasus, including Russia’s North Caucasus, continues to be an area of potential instability and conflict. This book, based on extensive original research, explores in detail at both the local and regional level how state and society interact to encourage security and democracy in the area.

Spis treści

Introduction: Security and democracy in the Caucasus: the societal dimension --Kevork Oskanian, Derek Averre and Laure Delcour

Chapter 1: The tip of the democratisation spear? Role and importance of the Georgian Armed Forces in the context of democratisation and European integration - Marion Kipiani

Chapter 2: Russian governance of the North Caucasus: Dilemmas of force and inclusion - Julie Wilhelmsen

Chapter 3: Overcoming the status quo in the unrecognised states of the South Caucasus: internal and external limitations - Roxana Andrei

Chapter 4: Transformation policies and local modernisation initiatives in the North Caucasus - V.А. Kolosov, O.I. Vendina, A.A. Gritsenko, M.V.Zotova, O.B. Glezer, A.A.Panin, A.B. Sebentsov, and V.N. Streletskii

Chapter 5: The making of groups, boundaries and cleavages in the South Caucasus: from macro to micro dynamics - Giulia Prelz Oltramonti

Chapter 6: Arctic labour migration, vulnerability and social change in the South Caucasus: The case of Azerbaijanis in the polar cities of Murmansk and Norilsk - Sophie Hohmann

Chapter 7: War veterans of Caucasian conflicts: diverging trajectories of war-related resources in ‘post-conflict’ situations - Aude Merlin and Taline Papazian

Chapter 8: ‘Exorcism of Cultural Otherness’: The Refugee Women in Post-Soviet Armenia - Evia Hovhannisyan

O autorze

Kevork Oskanian is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham

Derek Averre is a Reader at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham