Call for Papers – Chechnya: Rationales of Violence and War Experiences – Paris, 22-23 October 2012

 

 

CONFERENCE – CALL FOR PAPER – Chechnya: rationales of violence and war experiences

Paris, 22-23 October 2012

 Since 1994, the Chechen war has been qualified in diverse ways by actors and observers, and this profusion of qualifiers reveals a multitude of explanations for the causes, goals and consequences of the war. The aim of this conference will be first to sum up, renew and enrich existing research on the Chechen war, by rereading the history of Chechnya since the end of the Soviet period. Its aim will also be to put the phenomena of violence at work in Chechnya in a comparative perspective that takes into account the renewal of contemporary war studies as well as the historiography of 20th century wars. Continue reading

Book – V. Zhuravel’, A. Lebedev, Groznyi.Osobyi raion, 2011

Журавель В.П., Лебедев А.П. Грозный. Особый район. Хроника действий воинских частей и подразделений федеральных войск в ходе контртеррористической операции по освобождению столицы Чеченской Республики от незаконных вооруженных формирований. Декабрь 1999 – февраль 2000 года. М.: Типография «Новости», 2011. 416 с. Continue reading

Book – Mark Galeotti, “The Politics of Security in Modern Russia”

Mark Galeotti, The Politics of Security in Modern Russia, Ashgate, 2010, 250 pages.

The Putin era saw a striking ‘securitization’ of politics, something that he has bequeathed to his chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev. The omens from the early days of the Medvedev presidency have been mixed, marked both by less confrontational rhetoric towards the West and by war with Georgia and continued re-armament. Has the Medvedev generation learned the lessons not just from the Soviet era but also from the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies, or will security remain the foundation of Russian foreign and domestic policy? Continue reading