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Mark Youngman - Caucasus Emirate, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Caucasus Emirate

Ideology, identity, and insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus

Av Mark Youngman

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Insurgency has plagued the North Caucasus since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Between 2007 and 2015, rebels waged their struggle under the banner of the Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz, IK). This book systematically examines the IK’s ideology to explain what the group claimed to be fighting for and against and how it sought to mobilise people behind its cause. It reveals a group with a weakly developed political programme, which aligned itself with global jihadism but consistently prioritised local concerns. It demonstrates the priority rebel leaders afforded to shaping local identities, but also their failure to forge a unified movement or revitalise armed struggle. Re-evaluating the IK’s ideology helps us better understand the past and future of armed struggle in the North Caucasus.
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Mark Youngman is Executive Director of Threatologist, a research consultancy that helps individuals and organisations understand security threats in Russia and Eurasia

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'A much-needed comprehensive analysis of the ideology of the Caucasus Emirate in Russia’s North Caucasus. A must read for security experts trying to figure out how the North Caucasus insurgency has developed and what ideological shifts it has gone through. An important book that sheds light on how Russia’s insurgency is and is not connected to global jihadism.'Dr Elena Pokalova, College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University‘Without a single doubt, the author is one of the leading scholars on the Caucasus Emirate. The project is empirically unique and provides an exhaustive analysis on an understudied topic. The impressive quality of data collection and its meticulous methodology combined with a coherent and precise analytical framework underline the quality of the research project and its importance in the field.’Professor Jean-François Ratelle is an Adjunct Professor of Conflict Studies and Human Rights at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) at the University of Ottawa.'The first comprehensive research into the ideological component of jihadism in the Russian North Caucasus through the framing lenses of the Social Movement Theory. It competently argues in favor of jihadist ideological pluralism and the importance of understanding a particular jihadist group’s regional grievances and goals... it will appeal to scholars, policy-makers, and students interested in exploring the role of identity in jihadism and other mobilizing ideologies.'Slavic Review

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