Individual Disengagement of Avengers, Nationalists, and Jihadists

Emil Aslan Souleimanov is Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Formerly, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard. Souleimanov has published extensively on the theory and practice of security, conflict, and politics, with emphasis on the Caucasus. Huseyn Aliyev has recently completed his PhD in Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His work focuses on informal institutions and practices, civil society, security and conflict studies.

• Introduction 1. Theorizing Militant Disengagement 2. Conceptualizing Pathways to Individual Insurgent (Dis)Engagement 3. Chechnya and Dagestan: Ethnography, History and Conflicts 4. Individual Disengagement in Chechnya and Dagestan Conclusion