ISBN: 9780300120776

The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, b… Mehr…

The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the harbinger of a much larger Muslim challenge to Russia's political stability and state integrity. So concludes Gordon M. Hahn in this meticulously researched analysis of Russia's emerging Islamic threat. Hahn draws an explicit picture of an already sophisticated and effective Chechen jihadist network that is expanding the territorial scope of its operations with inspiration and some assistance from the global jihadist movement. Given its proximity to large stockpiles of diverse weapons, the expanding population of Russian-based Islamist terrorists is particular cause for alarm, the author warns.The book lifts the veil on the Muslim challenge to Russia's political stability, national security, and state integrity as well as the potentially grave threat to international and U.S. security. Hahn shows that many of the demographic, historical, socioeconomic, political, and religious factors sparking jihadi revolution in Muslim countries are extant in Russia and are driving revolutionary Islamist terrorism there. In a penetrating conclusion to the book, the author analyzes the policies that have fueled the rise of militant Islam and offers a series of important recommendations for policymakers. Media > Book, [PU: Yale University Press]<

2007, ISBN: 030012077X

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[EAN: 9780300120776], [PU: New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007.], RUSSIA GOVERNMENT POLITICS POLITICAL LEADERSHIP TERRORISM RUSSIAN FEDERATION TURKEY MUSLIM TERRORIST GR… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780300120776], [PU: New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007.], RUSSIA GOVERNMENT POLITICS POLITICAL LEADERSHIP TERRORISM RUSSIAN FEDERATION TURKEY MUSLIM TERRORIST GROUPS CHECHNYA CHECHEN REPUBLIC ISLAMIST ISLAM ARAB PAN NATIONALISM RELIGIOUS ASPECTS RELIGION MILITANT MILITANCY GUERRILLA WARFARE GROUP CIVIL WAR BALKANS IRAN MIDDLE EAST OF DAGESTAN DAGHESTAN ANALYSIS CRITICISM FOREIGN POLICY DIPLOMACY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INSURGENCY SEPARATISM ETHNIC TENSION SHARIAT JAMAAT VIOLENCE SUFI SALAFIST SHARIA LAY JIHADI MOVEMENT JIHADIST KABARDINO BALKARIA REGIONAL HISTORY, Jacket, First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). xviii, 349 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16cm. Black dust jacket lightly rubbed, mild bumping at spine ends. Black boards with bumping at spine ends. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With Preface, Acknowledgements, tables, maps, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Features seven chapters titled as: "Russia's Muslim and Islamist Challenge;" "The Chechen Quagmire and Its Consequences;" "Russia's Jihadist Network;" "The Rise of Jihadism in Dagestan;" "The Rise of Jihadism in Kabardino-Balkariya and the Western North Caucasus;" "Tatarstan and the Tatars : Nationalism, Islam, and Islamism;" "and Conclusions and Security Implications;" plus "Appendix: Chronology of Terrorism in Dagestan, 2002-2005." ISBN 9780300120776, Books<