Russia's Counterinsurgency in North Caucasus: Performance and Consequences: The Strategic Threat of Religious Extremism and Moscow's Response - Cohen, Ariel
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This monograph examines the issues behind the continuing low-level insurgency in the Russian North Caucasus. It begins by analyzing the history of the bloody and contentious relations between the Russian and the North Caucasus Muslim nations, focusing specifically on the process of subjugating the region by the Russian Empire; the Caucasus wars of the 19th century; and the two Chechen wars and their aftermath, beginning in 1994 until today. This book will appeal to the national security and policy community. Academia and political science students researching the Russia's North Caucus,…mehr

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This monograph examines the issues behind the continuing low-level insurgency in the Russian North Caucasus. It begins by analyzing the history of the bloody and contentious relations between the Russian and the North Caucasus Muslim nations, focusing specifically on the process of subjugating the region by the Russian Empire; the Caucasus wars of the 19th century; and the two Chechen wars and their aftermath, beginning in 1994 until today. This book will appeal to the national security and policy community. Academia and political science students researching the Russia's North Caucus, including Chechens, Ingush, Circassians, and other North Caucus nations that feel angst with Russians may find this text a helpful aid from a historical perspective dating back to the 18thc Century and forward. The author showcases the growth of terrorist activity in the region and poses outlook and recommendations in the rise of Radical Islamism. Military students and leaders may find this book refreshing as the book points to growing a coalition of nations to address the consequences of Russia's actions that are relevant in modern society. Russia and the Soviet Union resources collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/international-foreign-affairs/russia-soviet-union Counterinsurgency collection is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/security-defense-law-enforcement/counterinsurgency
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ariel Cohen is a recognized authority on international security and energy policy, and the rule of law. He is a leading expert in Russia/Eurasia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, and serves as a Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Dr. Cohen frequently testifies before committees of the U.S. Congress, including the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Helsinki Commission. Dr. Cohen regularly lectures at the request of U.S. Government institutions: the U.S. Department of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Training and Doctrine and Special Forces Commands of the U.S. armed services, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. He also conducts White House briefings and directs high-level conferences on international security, energy, the rule of law, crime and corruption, and a variety of other issues. Dr. Cohen consults for Fortune 500 companies and international law firms. He served as a Senior Consultant for Burson Marsteller's Emerging Markets practice, a global public affairs firm, and for Emerging Markets Communications, a boutique strategic communications consultancy. He has prepared expert testimonies and/or testified in high-profile cases tried by leading Washington law firms; and wrote expert opinions for investors who are involved in multi-billion dollar suits against illegal expropriations in the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Dr. Cohen was a Policy Adviser with the National Institute for Public Policy's Center for Deterrence Analysis and has consulted for U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Pentagon, the U.S. Senate, and Radio Liberty-Radio Free Europe. Dr. Cohen is a member of the Editorial Board of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Stockholm) and is on the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security, Endowment for Middle East Truth, and Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and the American Council on Germany. Dr. Cohen has published six books and monographs, 30 book chapters, and over 500 articles in professional and popular media. He appeared on CNN, NBC, CBS, FOX, C-SPAN, BBC-TV, Al Jazeera English, and all Russian and Ukrainian national TV networks. He was a commentator on a Voice of America weekly radio and TV show for 8 years. Currently, he is a Contributing Editor to The National Interest and a blogger for the Voice of America. For 8 years, he wrote commentary columns for United Press International, Middle East Times, and has extensively written as a guest columnist for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, EurasiaNet, and National Review Online. In Europe, his analyses have appeared in Kommersant; Izvestiya; Hurriyet; the popular Russian website, Ezhenedelny Zhurnal; and many others.