Security, Society and the State in the Caucasus

Kevork Oskanian, Derek Averre

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780367664107
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351134811
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

The Caucasus, including the South Caucasus states and Russia's North Caucasus, continues to be an area of instability and conflict. This book, based on extensive original research, explores in detail at both the local and regional level the interaction between state and society and the impact of external actors' engagement in the region within a conceptual framework linking security and democracy. Unlike other books on the subject, which tend to examine the issues from a Western political science perspective, this book incorporates insights from sociology, geography and anthropology as well as politics and contains contributions from scholars who have carried out extensive research in the region within a European Commission-funded Seventh Framework Programme project.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: security and democracy in the Caucasus: the interaction of state and society
• 1. The tip of the democratisation spear? Role and importance of the Georgian Armed Forces in the context of democratisation and European integration
• 2. Russian governance of the North Caucasus: dilemmas of force and inclusion
• 3. Overcoming the status quo in the unrecognised states of the South Caucasus: internal and external limitations
• 4. Transformation policies and local modernisation initiatives in the North Caucasus
• 5. The making of groups, boundaries and cleavages in the South Caucasus: from macro to micro dynamics
• 6. Arctic labour migration, vulnerability, and social change in the South Caucasus: the case of Azerbaijanis in the polar cities of Murmansk and Norilsk
• 7. Armenian volunteer fighters in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an eye on narrative trajectories in a no-war no-peace situation
• 8. ‘Exorcism of cultural otherness’: refugee women in post-Soviet Armenia
• Index