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Main books (6 items)

War and peace in the Caucasus: Russia's troubled frontier - Vicken Cheterian, 2008Book

The Caucasus: an introduction - Frederik Coene, 2010Book

Small nations and great powers: a study of ethnopolitical conflict in the Caucasus - SvanteE. Cornell, 2001

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The Caucasus: an introduction - Thomas De Waal, 2010Book

The ghost of freedom: a history of the Caucasus - Charles King, 2008Book

Though now somewhat dated, do also use the relevant chapters in: (1items)

Searching for peace in Europe and Eurasia: an overview of conflict prevention andpeacebuilding activities - Paul van Tongeren, Hans van de Veen, Juliette Verhoeven, 2002

Book

Major actors (28 items)

EU: (4 items)

Visibly Invisible: EU Engagement in Conflict Resolution in the South Caucasus - Tracey C.German, 2007

Article

The EU, Human Rights, and the Russo-Chechen Conflict - Tuomas Forsberg and Graeme P.Herd, 2005

Article

The EU as a conflict manager? The case of Georgia and its implications - Richard G.Whitman, Stefan Wolff, 2010-01

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Article

European SecurityJournal | See this journal especially.

OSCE (9 items)

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)Website

Helsinki monitorJournal

Centre for OSCE Research (CORE)Webpage

International organizations and internal conditionality: making norms matter - Rick Fawn,2013

Book | Available in library and as e-book.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - David J. Galbreath, 2007Book

Quiet diplomacy in action: the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities - Kemp,Walter A., 2001

Book

Taming ethnic hatred: ethnic cooperation and transnational networks in Eastern Europe -McMahon, Patrice C., 2007

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The OSCE and the multiple challenges of transition: the Caucasus and central Asia -Sabahi, Farian, Warner, Daniel, 2003

Book

See also the OSCE Yearbook:   various years – available online at:

http://www.core-hamburg.de/CORE_english/pub_osce_yearbook.htm

Council of Europe (6 items)

Council of EuropeWebpage

International organizations and internal conditionality: making norms matter - Rick Fawn,2013

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Book | Available in library and as e-book.

Russia and the Council of Europe : The Perils of Premature Admission - William D. Jackson,2004

Article

Russia and the Council of Europe: 10 years after - Malfliet, Katlijn, Parmentier, Stephan,2010

Book

Judging the Chechen war: assessing the impact of the European Court for Human Rights onRussia's conduct in Chechnya - Preclik, Petr, 2010

Book

The Council of Europe: monitoring procedures and the constitutional autonomy of themember states - Winkler, Günther, 2006

Book

Russia (6 items)

www.mid.ru/bul_ns_en.nsf/kartaflat/en01

(earlier-dated readings set the stage for Russian involvement in theNear Abroad): (5 items)

Russia, the West, and military intervention - Roy Allison, 2013Book | Available in library and as e-book.

Russian peacekeeping strategies in the CIS: the cases of Moldova, Georgia and Tajikistan -Dov Lynch, 2000

Book | Available in library and as e-book.

Russia's policies in the Caucasus - Pavel Baev, 1997Book

Defining Russia's Role in Relations with Neighbouring States - John Lough, 14 May 1993Article

The Place of the "Near Abroad" in Russian Foreign Policy - John Lough, 12 March 1993Article

Turkey & Iran: (3 items)

Cordesman, Anthony H., Bryan Gold, Robert Shelala, and Michael Gibbs, U.S. and IranianStrategic Competition: Turkey and the South Caucasus (CSIS, 2013). This is an e-draft of abook, and may therefore be subject to change, available at:

http://csis.org/files/publication/130612_turk_casp_chap9.pdf

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Turkey and the Caucasus: domestic interests and security concerns - Gareth M. Winrow,Central Asian and Caucasian Prospects (Project), 2000

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Winrow, Gareth, Turkey, Russia and the Caucasus: Common and Diverging Interests(London: Chatham House, 2009), available at:

http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Research/Europe/bp1109turkey.pdf

THEMES (29 items)

Human Rights Abuses (3 items)

Women, violence and war: wartime victimization of refugees in the Balkans -Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna, 1999

Book

Mass rape: the war against women in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Stiglmayer, Alexandra, Faber,Marion, 1994

Book

After feminist analyses of Bosnian violence - Darius M. Rejali, 1996Article

Media (5 items)

Degraded capability: the media and the Kosovo crisis - Hammond, Phil, Herman, Edward S., 2000

Book

Prime time crime: Balkan media in war and peace - Kurspahic, Kemal, 2003Book

"A problem from hell": America and the age of genocide - Power, Samantha, 2003Book

The U.S. media and Yugoslavia, 1991-1995 - James J. Sadkovich, 1998Book

Forging war: the media in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina - Thompson, Mark,1999

Book

Demographics – how population numbers have been used to justify

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claims/actions (1 items)

Population Trends in the Russian Federation: Reflections on the Legacy of SovietCensorship and Distortions of Demographic Statistics - Mark Tolts, 2008

Article

Religion (1 items)

The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: global Jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus and beyond -Gordon M. Hahn, 2014

Book

National myths / political use thereof: (3 items)

Heavenly Serbia: from myth to genocide - Anzulovic, Branimir, 1999Book

Myths and boundaries in south-eastern Europe - Kolstø, Pål, 2005Book

Kosovo: how myths and truths started a war - Mertus, Julie, 1999Book

Democratization, civil society and conflict / conflict resolution: (5 items)

Separatism and Democracy in the Caucasus - Nina Caspersen, 2008Article

International Alert, Advancing the Prospects for Peace: 20 Years of Civil Peacebuilding inthe Context of the Nagorny Karabakh Conflict (August 2013), available at:

http://www.international-alert.org/resources/publications/advancing-prospects-peace-en

ICG, The North Caucasus: The Challenges of Integration (III), Governance, Elections, Rule ofLaw (Europe Report N°226, 6 September 2013), available at:

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/europe/north-caucasus/226-north-caucasus-the-challenges-of-integration-iii-governance-elections-rule-of-law.aspx

Democratization, Nationalism and Regional Security in the Southern Caucasus - S. NeilMacFarlane, 1997

Article

From voting to violence: democratization and nationalist conflict - Jack L. Snyder, 2000Book

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De facto states (5 items)

The Kosovo—and Montenegro—effect - Rick Fawn, 2008Article

The Benefits of Ethnic War: Understanding Eurasia's Unrecognized States - Charles King,2001

Article

The Sustainability and Future of Unrecognized Quasi-States - Pål Kolstø, 2006Article

Engaging Eurasia's separatist states: unresolved conflicts and de facto states - Lynch, Dov,2004

Book

Separatist States and Post-Soviet Conflicts - Dov Lynch, 2002Article

Energy (6 items)

Energy and conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus - Robert E. Ebel, Rajan Menon, 2000Book

The politics of oil in the Caucasus and Central Asia: prospects for oil exploration and exportin the Caspian basin - Rosemarie Forsythe, 1996

Book

Energy and security in the Caucasus - Emmanuel Karagiannis, 2011Book

Power games in the Caucasus: Azerbaijan's foreign and energy policy towards the West,Russia and the Middle East - Nazrin Mehdiyeva, 2011

Book

Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia: the 21st century security environment - RajanMenon, IU. E. Fedorov, G. O. Nodia, 1999

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Faultlines of conflict in Central Asia and the south Caucasus: implications for the U.S. Army- Thomas S. Szayna, 2003

Book

READINGS FOR CASES (168 items)

Soviet nationalities policy (3 items)A huge literature; for a start see:

Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the Soviet State - Beissinger, Mark R., 2002

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Book | Available in the Library or as an e-book.

The Soviet nationality reader: the disintegration in context - Denber, Rachel, 1992Book | Very good compilation of existing literature to that time.

The Nationalities factor in Soviet politics and society - Hajda, Lubomyr, Beissinger, Mark R.,1990

Book

Secession and the (Post)Communist Context Generally (8 items)

Austro-Marxism's Last Laugh?: The Struggle for Recognition of National-Cultural Autonomyfor Rossians and Russians - Bill Bowring, 2002

Article

International society after the Cold War: anarchy and order reconsidered - Fawn, Rick,Larkins, Jeremy, 1996

Book | Fawn, Rick and Mayall, James, ‘Recognition, Self-Determination andSecessionism in Post-Cold War International Society’. State-creation and internationalrecognition in Central & East Europe.

The Parade of Sovereignties: Testing Theories of Secession in the Soviet Setting - Henry E.Hale, 2000

Article

Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict - Hughes, James,Sasse, Gwendolyn, 2002

Book | Hughes, James and Gwendolyn Sasse, ‘Comparing Regional and Ethnic Conflictsin Post-Soviet Transition States’, pp. 1-35.

Ethnic tensions and separatism in Russia - Valery Stepanov, 2000Article

Russia's "Ethnic Revival": The Separatist Activism of Regional Leaders in a PostcommunistOrder - Daniel S. Treisman, 1997

Article

No Peace, No War in the Caucasus: Secessionist Conflicts in Chechnya, Abkhazia andNagorno-Karabakh - Edward W. Walker, 1998

Document

Conflicting loyalties and the state in post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia - Michael Waller, BrunoCoppieters, A. V. Malashenko, 1998

Book

Russia generally (including possibilities of secession from it, excludingChechnya) (11 items)This refers especially to the ‘Muslim’ republics, such as Dagestan and Tatarstan.

Tuva. A State Reawakens - Toomas Alatalu, 1992

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The road not taken: Daghestan and Chechen independence1 - Moshe Gammer, 2005Article

Regional Separatism in Russia: Ethnic Mobilisation or Power Grab? - Dmitry Gorenburg,1999

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Nationalism for the Masses: Popular Support for Nationalism in Russia's Ethnic Republics -Dmitry Gorenburg, 2001

Article

Managing Secessionist Potential in the Russian Federation - James HughesChapter

Politics and the ethnic divide: Is Dagestan changing from complex to simple oligarchy? -Hans Oversloot, Ger P. Van Den Berg, 2005

Article

Ethnic tensions and separatism in Russia - Valery Stepanov, 2000Article

Ethnicity, nationalism and conflict in and after the Soviet Union: the mind aflame - V. A.Tishkov, 1997

Book

Negotiating Autonomy: Tatarstan, Asymmetrical Federalism, and State Consolidation inRussia - Edward W. Walker

Chapter

Political Islam in Dagestan - Robert Bruce Ware, Enver Kisriev, Werner J. Patzelt and UteRoericht, 2003

Article

Dagestan: Russian hegemony and Islamic resistance in the North Caucasus - Robert BruceWare, E. F. Kisriev, 2010

Book

CAUCASUS (general) (146 items)

Main reading: (6 items)

Let our fame be great: journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus - OliverBullough, 2011

Book

War and peace in the Caucasus: Russia's troubled frontier - Cheterian, Vicken, 2008Book

The Caucasus: an introduction - Coene, Frederik, 2011

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Small nations and great powers: a study of ethnopolitical conflict in the Caucasus - Cornell,Svante E., 2001

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The Caucasus: an introduction - De Waal, Thomas, 2010Book

The ghost of freedom: a history of the Caucasus - Charles King, 2008Book | Available in library and as e-book.

Additional general readings on the South Caucasus (please note thedates of publication): (14 items)

Central Asia and the Caucasus: transnationalism and diaspora - Atabaki, Touraj,Mehendale, Sanjyot, 2005

Book | Available in the Library or as an e-book.

Federalism and conflict in the Caucasus - Bruno Coppieters, 2001Book

Conflict, cleavage, and change in Central Asia and the Caucasus - Dawisha, Karen, Parrott,Bruce, 1997

Book

Islamic Identity and political Mobilization in Russia: Chechnya and Dagestan Compared -Elise Giuliano, 2005

Article

Pride of small nations: the Caucasus and post-Soviet disorder - Goldenberg, Suzanne, 1994Book

The new Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - Herzig, Edmund, 1999Book

The Transcaucasus in transition: nation-building and conflict - Hunter, Shireen, 1994Book

Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia: the 21st century security environment - Menon,Rajan, Fedorov, Yuri E., Nodia, G. O., 1999

Book

Nations and politics in the Soviet successor states - Bremmer, Ian A., Taras, Ray, 1993Book | Ormrod, Jane, ‘North Caucasus: Fragmentation of Federation’, pp. 448-76.

Transcaucasia, nationalism and social change: essays in the history of Armenia,Azerbaijan, and Georgia - Suny, Ronald Grigor, 1996

Book

The South Caucasus: problems of stability and regional security - David Shahnazaryan,

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2006Article

The fire below: how the Caucasus shaped Russia - Robert Bruce Ware, 2013Book

The post-Soviet wars: rebellion, ethnic conflict, and nationhood in the Caucasus - Zürcher,Christoph, 2007

Book

A classical historical account is: (1 items)

The Russian conquest of the Caucasus - Baddeley, John F., 1908Book

More specifically on each South Caucasus country: (18 items)

Armenia: (7 items)

Modern Armenia: people, nation, state - Libaridian, Gerald J., 2007Book

The Armenians: from kings and priests to merchants and commissars - Razmik Panossian,c2006

Book

Democracy and Nationalism in Armenia - Peter Rutland, 1994Article

United States policy toward the Armenian question and the Armenian genocide - SimonPayaslian, 2005

Book

The history of Armenia: from the origins to the present - Simon Payaslian, 2007Book

The political economy of human rights in Armenia: authoritarianism and democracy in aformer Soviet republic - Simon Payaslian, 2011

Book

Looking toward Ararat: Armenia in modern history - Suny, Ronald Grigor, 1993Book

Azerbaijan: (5 items)

The Azerbaijani Turks: power and identity under Russian rule - Altstadt, Audrey L., 1992Book

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Azerbaijan: a political history - Süha Bölükbasi, 2014Book

Azerbaijan since independence - Svante E. Cornell, c2011Book

Power games in the Caucasus: Azerbaijan's foreign and energy policy towards the West,Russia and the Middle East - Nazrin Mehdiyeva, 2011

Book

Azerbaijan: legacies of the past and the trials of independence - Swietochowski, Tadeusz,2008

Book

Georgia: (6 items)

Special Issue: Georgia Ablaze: War and Revolution in the Caucasus - 2009Article

Statehood and security: Georgia after the Rose Revolution - Bruno Coppieters, RobertLegvold, 2005

Book

Georgia: revolution and war - Rick Fawn, 2013Book

Georgia diary: a chronicle of war and political chaos in the post-Soviet Caucasus - Goltz,Thomas, 2006

Book

Georgia reborn: Nation, state and democracy, 1991-2003 - Jones, Stephen, 2008Book

Georgia from national awakening to Rose Revolution: delayed transition in the formerSoviet Union - Wheatley, Jonathan, 2005

Book

More specifically on the South Caucasus as conflicts (4 items)

Generally on South Caucasus conflicts: (4 items)

Conflict in the South Caucasus - Sir Brian Fall, 2006Article

Fawn, Rick, 'Security in the South Caucasus', (April 2012) available at:

http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/en/reports/?view=Report&id=778391582

This is a report written for the British Foreign Office and the Georgian Foreign Ministry on

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the Georgian and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts. 

Fear, weakness and power in the post-Soviet South Caucasus: a theoretical and empiricalanalysis - Kevork Oskanian, 2013

Book

Understanding ethnopolitical conflict: Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia warsreconsidered - Emil Souleimanov, 2013

Book | Available in library and as e-book.

Main Cases: Armenia/Azerbaijan - Nagorno-Karabakh (28 items)

Main reading: (4 items)

Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war - De Waal, Thomas, 2003Book | Available in the Library or as an e-book.

Searching for peace in Europe and Eurasia: an overview of conflict prevention andpeacebuilding activities - Tongeren, Paul van, Veen, Hans van de, Verhoeven, Juliette,2002

Book | Textbook chapter 15.3, pp. 445-67.

War and peace in the Caucasus: Russia's troubled frontier - Cheterian, Vicken, 2008Book | If not read already: ‘The Karabakh Conflict’.

ICG, Armenia and Azerbaijan: A Season of Risks (September 2013) available at:

http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/europe/caucasus/b071-armenia-and-azerbaijan-a-season-of-risks.pdf

Additional sources and readings: (24 items)

News - NKRWebpage

Nagorno-Karabakh: Searching for a Solution - Patricia Carley, 1998Document

The Caucasian knot: the history & geopolitics of Nagorno-Karabagh - Chorbajian, Levon,Donabédian, Patrick, Mutafian, Claude, 1994

Book

The making of Nagorno-Karabagh: from secession to republic - Chorbajian, Levon, 2001Book | Available in the Library or as an e-book.

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The limits of leadership: elites and societies in the Nagorny Karabakh peace process -Broers, Laurence, 2005

Book | Available in the Library or online at Conciliation Resources.

The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: causes and implications - Croissant, Michael P., 1998Book

Remaking the Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process - Thomas de Waal, 2010Article

Azerbaijan diary: a rogue reporter's adventures in an oil-rich, war-torn, post-Soviet republic- Goltz, Thomas, 1999

Book | Especially chapter on Nagorno-Karabagh.

Azerbaijan: Seven years of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh - Human Rights Watch/Helsinki,1994

Book

International Alert, Advancing the Prospects for Peace: 20 Years of Civil Peacebuilding inthe Context of the Nagorny Karabakh Conflict (August 2013), available at:

http://www.international-alert.org/resources/publications/advancing-prospects-peace-en

International Crisis Group, Nagorno-Karabakh: A Plan for Peace (Europe Report N°167 11October 2005), at:

 http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/europe/167_nagorno_karabakh_a_plan_for_peace.pdf

Modern hatreds: the symbolic politics of ethnic war - Kaufman, Stuart J., 2001Book | Chapter on Nagorno-Karabagh.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: a legal analysis - Heiko Krüger, 2010Book

My brother's road: an American's fateful journey to Armenia - Melkonian, Markar,Melkonian, Seta, 2007

Book | Biographical: read after other sources.

Population Trends in a Contested Pseudo-State: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh - RichardH. Rowland, 2008

Article

Democracy and Nationalism in Armenia - Peter Rutland, 1994Article

The Republic of Azerbaijan: Notes on the State Borders in the Past and Present - Alijarly

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SulejmanChapter

Land for Peace in Nagorny Karabakh? Political Geographies and Public Attitudes Inside aContested De Facto State - Gerard Toal, John O'Loughlin, 2013

Article

Nagorno Karabagh: Transition and the elite - Hratch Tchilingirian, 1999Article

National self-determination and the limits of sovereignty: Armenia, Azerbaijan and thesecession of Nagorno-Karabagh - Khachig Tololyan, 1995

Article

Transcaucasian boundaries - Goldenberg, Suzanne, Wright, John F. R., Schofield, Richard,1996

Book | Walker, Christopher J., ‘The Armenian presence in mountainous Karabakh’ , pp.89-112.

No Peace, No War in the Caucasus: Secessionist Conflicts in Chechnya, Abkhazia andNagorno-Karabakh - Edward W. Walker, 1998

Document

Central Eurasia - prize or quicksand?: contending views of instability in Karabakh,Ferghana and Afghanistan - Weisbrode, Kenneth, 2001

Book

The Nagorno-Karabakh settlement revisited: is peace achievable? - Levon Zourabian, 2006Article

Chechnya: (51 items)

See The Jamestown Foundation's electronic section on Chechnya.

The Russian-Chechen tragedy: the way to peace and democracy. Conditionalindependence under an international administration - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of,2003

Article | For one peace plan see this.

See the 1997 'Peace Treaty and Principles of Interrelation between Russian Federation andChechen Republic Ichkeria' at:

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http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/services/cds/agreements/pdf/rus2.pdf

See ICG reports on Chechnya/North Caucasus at:

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/crisiswatch/crisiswatch-database.aspx?CountryIDs=%7b85BEDB30-5CDC-42E8-B457-971544D7271E%7d#results

Chechnya's secret wartime diplomacy: Aslan Maskhadov and the quest for a peacefulresolution - Ilyas Akhmadov, Nicholas Daniloff, Anatoly Semenov, 2013

Book

The Chechen struggle: independence won and lost - Akhmadov, Ilyas, Lanskoy, Miriam,2010

Book

Fangs of the lone wolf: Chechen tactics in the Russian-Chechen wars, 1994-2009 - DodgeBillingsley, 2013

Book

Let our fame be great: journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus - OliverBullough, 2011

Book | chapter on Grozny; readable but journalistic account.

Central Asian Survey - Special Issue on Chechnya - 2003Journal

Russia confronts Chechnya: roots of a separatist conflict - Dunlop, John B., 1998Book

The 2002 Dubrovka and 2004 Beslan hostage crises: a critique of Russiancounter-terrorism - Dunlop, John B., 2006

Book

The Chechen wars: will Russia go the way of the Soviet Union? - Evangelista, Matthew,2002

Book | Available in the Library or as an e-book.

International organizations and internal conditionality: making norms matter - Rick Fawn,2013

Book | Chapter on CoE/ECHR and Chechnya. Available in library and as e-book.

Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009 - 2014Book

Chechnya: a small victorious war - Carlotta Gall, Thomas De Waal, 1997Book

The lone wolf and the bear: three centuries of Chechen defiance : a history - Gammer,

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Moshe, 2006Book

Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the tragedy of civilians in war - Gilligan, Emma, 2010Book

Russia's Islamic threat - Gordon M. Hahn, 2007Book

The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: global Jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus and beyond -Gordon M. Hahn, 2014

Book

From tactical terrorism to Holy War: the evolution of Chechen terrorism, 1995–2004 - YagilHenkin, 2006

Article

Chechnya: from nationalism to jihad - Hughes, James, 2007Book

The Perils of Counterinsurgency: Russia's War in Chechnya - Mark Kramer, 2004Article

Contested Sovereignty: The Tragedy of Chechnya - Gail W. Lapidus, 1998Article

Chechnya at war and beyond - Anne Le Huérou, Aude Merlin, Amandine Regamey,Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, 2014

Book

Chechnya: tombstone of Russian power - Lieven, Anatol, 1999Book | Available in the Library or as an e-book.

Anatomy of Ambivalence: The International Community and Human Rights Abuse in theNorth Caucasus - Sarah Mendelson, 2006

Article

Foreign Fighters and the Case of Chechnya: A Critical Assessment - Cerwyn Moore, PaulTumelty, 2008

Article

A small corner of hell: dispatches from Chechnya - Politkovskaia, Anna, Burry, Alexander,Tulchinsky, Tatiana, 2003

Book

A dirty war: a Russian reporter in Chechnya - Politkovskaia, Anna, 2001Book

Judging the Chechen war: assessing the impact of the European Court for Human Rights onRussia's conduct in Chechnya - Preclik, Petr, 2010

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Obstacles to Peace in Chechnya: What Scope for International Involvement? - John Russell,2006

Article

Mujahedeen, Mafia, Madmen: Russian Perceptions of Chechens During the Wars inChechnya, 1994-96 and 1999-2001 - John Russell, 2002

Article

Chechnya - Russia's "war on terror" - Russell, John, 2007Book

Chechnya: from past to future - Sakwa, Richard, 2005Book

The insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: from gazavat to jihad - Schaefer,Robert W., 2011

Book

Russo-Chechen conflict, 1800-2000: a deadly embrace - Seely, Robert, 2001Book

Allah's mountains: the battle for Chechnya - Smith, Sebastian, 2001Book

The Internationalisation of the Russian–Chechen Conflict: Myths and Reality - EmilSouleimanov, Ondrej Ditrych, 2008

Article

Chechnya: life in a war-torn society - Tishkov, V. A., 2004Book

Russia's restless frontier: the Chechnya factor in post-Soviet Russia - Trenin, Dmitrii,Malashenko, A. V., Lieven, Anatol, 2004

Book

Islam, Territory, and Contested Space in Post-Soviet Russia - Edward Walker, 2005Article

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Islamisation of the Chechen Separatist Movement -Julie Wilhelmsen, 2005

Article

Chechnya: the case for independence - Wood, Tony, 2007Book

Especially on ‘post-conflict’ settlement / Kadyrov regime (1 items)

"You Dress According to Their Rules": Enforcement of an Islamic Dress Code for Women in

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Chechnya (Human Rights Watch, 2011), downloadable at:

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/03/10/you-dress-according-their-rules-0

More widely on the North Caucasus: (1 items)

ICG, The North Caucasus: The Challenges of Integration (III), Governance, Elections, Rule ofLaw (Europe Report N°226, 6 September 2013), available at:

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/europe/north-caucasus/226-north-caucasus-the-challenges-of-integration-iii-governance-elections-rule-of-law.aspx

Journalistic or personal accounts of the conflict: (6 items)

The oath: a surgeon under fire - Baiev, Khassan, Daniloff, Ruth, Daniloff, Nicholas, 2004Book

Crying wolf: the return of war to Chechnya - Vanora Bennett, 2001Book

The sky wept fire: my life as a Chechen freedom fighter - Mikail Eldin, 2012Book

Free fall: a sniper's story from Chechnya - Nicolai Lilin, Jamie Richards, 2012Book | [personal account; read after others, and then with Eldin]

Beslan: the tragedy of School No. 1 - Phillips, Timothy S. J., 2008Book

The angel of Grozny: inside Chechnya - Seierstad, Åsne, Christensen, Nadia, 2009Book

Georgia and the conflicts (25 items)

Main reading: (5 items)

A Question of sovereignty: the Georgia-Abkhazia peace process - Jonathan Cohen, 1999Book

Cohen, Jonathan (ed.), A Question of Sovereignty: The Georgia-Abkhazia Peace Process

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(London: Conciliation Resources, 1999) (paper version in Library but also availableelectronically at: 

http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/georgia-abkhazia/contents.php

The difficulties of knowing the start of war in the information age: Russia, Georgia and theWar over South Ossetia, August 2008 - Rick Fawn, Robert Nalbandov, 2012

Article

War and peace in the Caucasus: Russia's troubled frontier - Vicken Cheterian, 2008Book | ‘Georgia, From National Liberation to State Collapse and Back’.

ICG, Abkhazia: The Long Road to Reconciliation (Europe Report N°224, 10 April 2013),

available at:

http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/europe/caucasus/georgia/224-abkhazia-the-long-road-to-reconciliation.pdf

August War of 2008: (7 items)

Russia Resurgent? Moscow's Campaign to 'Coerce Georgia to Peace' - Roy Allison, 2008Article

Russia, the West, and military intervention - Roy Allison, 2013Book | Available in library and as e-book.

A little war that shook the world: Georgia, Russia, and the future of the West - Asmus,Ronald D., 2010

Book

The guns of August 2008: Russia's war in Georgia - Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr,c2009

Book

The wars of Eduard Shevardnadze - Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl, Melvin Allan Goodman,c1997

Book

Georgia: pawn in the new great game - Gahrton, Per, 2010Book | Practitioner’s account- read after more academic works.

Explaining foreign policy: international diplomacy and the Russo-Georgian War - Mouritzen,Hans, Wivel, Anders, 2012

Book

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Additional readings: (13 items)

Frozen Uncertainty: Russia and the Conflict over Abkhazia - Oksana AntonenkoChapter

The Georgian/South Ossetian Territorial and Boundary Dispute - Julian BirchChapter

Federal practice: exploring alternatives for Georgia and Abkhazia - Bruno Coppieters,David Darchiashvili, Natella Akaba, 2000

Russia’s Reluctant Retreat from the Caucasus: Abkhazia, Georgia and the US afterSeptember 11 - Rick Fawn

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Conflict resolution and status: the case of Georgia and Abkhazia, 1989-2008 - CélineFrancis, c2011

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Negotiating in a Coordination Network of Citizen Peacebuilding Initiatives in theGeorgian-Abkhaz Peace Process - Paula Garb, Susan Allen Nan, 2006

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Minority Political Inclusion in Mikheil Saakashvili's Georgia - Julie A. George, 2008Article

ICG, Saakashvili's Ajara Success: Repeatable Elsewhere in Georgia? (Europe Briefing Nº34,18 August 2004), available at:

http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/europe/040818_saakashvili_ajara_success_repeatable_elsewhere_in_georgia.pdf

Smuggling in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region in 2003- 2004 - Alexandre Kukhianidze,Alexandre Kupatadze, Roman Gotsiridze

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Radiological Smuggling and Uncontrolled Territories: The Case Of Georgia - AlexanderKupatadze, 2007

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Becoming European: Georgia’s Strategy for Joining the EU - Vladimer Papava, MichaelTokmazishvili, 2006

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Under siege: inter-ethnic relations in Abkhazia - Tom Trier, Hedvig Lohm, David Szakonyi,2010

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Georgia from national awakening to Rose Revolution: delayed transition in the formerSoviet Union - Jonathan Wheatley, c2005

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