Chapter
Published:
Russian Governance of the North Caucasus: Dilemmas of force and inclusion
Summary:
While Vladimir Putin’s Russia struggles to strike a balance between security and freedom within the Russian polity, nowhere is the problem as acute as in the eastern parts of the North Caucasus. This chapter reviews Russia’s approach to the republics in that region since Putin came to power, and asks what the potential for mobilisation against Russian rule in the North Caucasus amounts to. The current decrease in violence in the region is often taken as a sign of ‘success’ in curbing the insurgency. I argue that the heavy focus on repression and exclusion in Russian policies may well backfire and create conditions for a new mobilisation against Russian dominance.
- Published year: 2019
- Publisher: Routledge
- Language: Engelsk
- Pages: 37 - 56
Written by
Julie Wilhelmsen
Research Professor