Emil Aslan Souleimanov

How Socio-Cultural Codes Shaped Violent Mobilization and Pro-Insurgent Support in the Chechen Wars

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This book argues that the existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict has so far failed to take into account the role of socio-cultural disparities among belligerents. In order to remedy this deficiency, this study conceptualizes socio-cultural asymmetry under the term of asymmetry of values. It proposes that socio-cultural values which are based upon the codes of retaliation, silence, and hospitality - values which are intrinsic to honor cultures, yet absent from modern institutionalized cultures - may significantly affect violent mobilization and pro-insurgent support in that they facilitate recruitment into and support for insurgent group… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Aliyev, Huseyn

ISBN: 978-3-319-52916-5
EAN: 9783319529165
Produktnummer: 31951018
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 79 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 260 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Gewicht: 260
Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor

Emil Aslan Souleimanov is Associate Professor of International Area Studies at Charles University, Czech Republic. His recent work focuses on the micro-dynamics of violence and political ethnography with emphasis on Russia's North Caucasus.Huseyn Aliyev is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Security Studies of Metropolitan University Prague. His current research interests are civil wars and extra-state armed groups, as well as informal politics and institutions.