State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya

ISBN-13: 9781009245951 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str.

Connecticut) Lazarev Egor (Yale University

Opis

This book explores how politicians and individuals use state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals in Chechnya.

Recenzje

'Contrary to many conventional accounts that portray Chechnya as a lawless realm, the political scientist Lazarev's well-researched study draws on extensive field work to describe this region of Russia as a scene of legal pluralism … Despite the intricacies of its subject, the book is highly readable, its academic narrative interspersed with curious legal cases and episodes from the author's own experience navigating Chechnya.' Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Theory and Ethnography: 1. State-building as lawfare: the view from above and from below; 2. The field: ethnography of legal pluralism in postwar Chechnya; Part II. Lawfare and Political Order: 3. The Chechen way: lawfare under imperial and Soviet rule; 4. 'There are no camels in Chechnya!' lawfare during the independence period; 5. 'We will use every resource!' jurisdictional politics in postwar Chechnya; Part III. Lawfare and Social Order: 6. Laws in conflict: hybrid legal order in contemporary Chechnya; 7. 'People need law:' demand for social order after conflict; 8: Chechen women go to court: war and women's lawfare; Conclusion; References.