Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus

Galina M. Yemelianova is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK. She is a co-editor of Routledge’s triannual journal Caucasus Survey and a member of the National Advisory Board of Europe-Asia Studies. She is also the author of Russia and Islam: A Historical Survey (2002), Muslims of Central Asia: An Introduction (2019) and the editor of Islam in Post-Soviet Russia: Public and Private Faces (2003, Routledge) and Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union (2010, Routledge). Laurence Broers is Caucasus Programme Director at Conciliation Resources, UK. He is the author of Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry (2019), and the co-founder and co-chief editor of the Caucasus Survey. He is also the co-editor of Armenia's Velvet Revolution: Authoritarian Decline and Civil Resistance in a Multipolar World (forthcoming in 2020). He is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK, and an Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House.

1. Introducing the Caucasus; Part I: Place, peoples and culture; 2. Caucasus paradigms revisited; 3. Peoples, languages and lore; 4. The early Christian Caucasus; 5. The Muslim Caucasus: the role of ‘adats and shari‛ah; Part II: Political history; 6. The ‘long millennium’: the Caucasus from the medieval to the early modern periods; 7. The Caucasus in the Russian Empire; 8. Between the Russian Empire and the USSR: the independence of Transcaucasia as a socio-political transformation; 9. The Soviet Caucasus, 1920-91: resistance and accommodation; Part III: The contemporary Caucasus: politics, economics and societies; 10. Azerbaijan: politics, society and economy since independence; 11. The new Georgia: politics, economy and society; 12. Armenia: from revolution to revolution; 13. The north-eastern Caucasus: Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia; 14. The north-western Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Adygea; Part IV: Conflict and political violence; 15. Ethno-territorial and secessionist conflicts: causes and trajectories; 16. Unrecognised statehood? The de facto states of the South Caucasus; 17. Jihadist violence in the North Caucasus: political, social and economic factors; 18. Transnational Salafi and jihadist networks: from an independent insurgency to a leaderless network; Part V: The Caucasus in the wider world; 19. Russia in the Caucasus; 20. The South Caucasus and the West: from hegemony to contestation; 21. Turkey and the Caucasus: mutual interests and influences in the post-Soviet era; 22. The Caucasus and Iran; 23. The Caucasus and the Caspian Sea: legality, energy politics and regional security; Part VI: Societal and cultural dynamics; 24. Demography of the Caucasus; 25. Gender and society in the Caucasus; 26. Civil society in the Caucasus: voluntary youth organisations; 27. New media and digital activism: comparing Armenia and Chechnya