Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Many Faces of the Caucasus, Paperback / softback Book

Many Faces of the Caucasus Paperback / softback

Edited by Nino Kemoklidze, Cerwyn (University of Birmingham, UK) Moore, Jeremy Smith, Galina Yemelianova

Part of the Routledge Europe-Asia Studies series

Paperback / softback

Description

Studies of the Caucasus in the West have been dominated by issues of security and ethnic conflict based on Eurocentric theoretical paradigms.

By contrast, this volume offers contributions from researchers working within a range of disciplines, including history, social anthropology, sociology and cultural studies as well as international relations and security studies.

Some of the contributions demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the region from ‘inside’, while others explore the issues within a wider Eurasian and global perspective.

The volume examines the politically-defined division of the region into the North and South Caucasus, the evolution of national identity and citizenship, and the role of the NGOs in the development of civil society in the post-Soviet period.

Its content demonstrates the advantages of an area studies inter-disciplinary approach to the study of the region and the importance of collaboration between Western and local researchers.

It highlights the importance of the Caucasus as a geographical, political and civilisational entity and examines the historical, cultural, political, religious and psychological factors behind the region’s particular susceptibility to territorial and ethno-religious conflict.

The book will be of benefit to scholars and students researching the Caucasus, Russia and the post-Soviet space.

It will also appeal to policy-makers, NGO activists, journalists and a wider audience interested in this fascinating region. This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

Information

£31.99

 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information