Souleimanov, E. A. and Aliyev, H. (2017) How Socio-Cultural Codes Shaped Violent Mobilization and Pro-Insurgent Support in the Chechen Wars. Series: Palgrave pivot. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 9783319529165 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-52917-2)
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Abstract
This book argues that the existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict has so far failed to take into account the role of socio-cultural disparities among belligerents. In order to remedy this deficiency, this study conceptualizes socio-cultural asymmetry under the term of asymmetry of values. It proposes that socio-cultural values which are based upon the codes of retaliation, silence, and hospitality – values which are intrinsic to honor cultures, yet absent from modern institutionalized cultures – may significantly affect violent mobilization and pro-insurgent support in that they facilitate recruitment into and support for insurgent groups, while denying such support to incumbent forces. Utilizing Russia's counterinsurgency campaigns in the First and Second Chechnya Wars as an empirical case study, this study explains how asymmetry of values can have an effect on the dynamics of contemporary irregular wars.
| Item Type: | Books |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Aliyev, Dr Huseyn |
| Authors: | Souleimanov, E. A., and Aliyev, H. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Central and East European Studies |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 9783319529165 |
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