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PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 9, Issue 1 IV. Resources Bibliography: Terrorism in, or Originating from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia (Part 1) Compiled and Selected by Judith Tinnes [Bibliographic Series of Perspectives on Terrorism - BSPT-JT-2015-1] Abstract This bibliography contains journal articles, book chapters, books, edited volumes, theses, grey literature, bibliographies and other resources on terrorism in the Caucasus region, Central Asia, and Russia as well as terrorist activity originating from these regions abroad. Though focusing on recent (non-Russian language) literature, the bibliography is not restricted to a particular time period and covers publications up to December 2014. The literature has been retrieved by manually browsing more than 200 core and periphery sources in the field of Terrorism Studies. Additionally, full-text and reference retrieval systems have been employed to expand the search. Keywords: bibliography; resources; literature; Caucasus; Central Asia; Russia, terrorism NB: All websites were last visited on 01.01.2015.–See also Note for the Reader at the end of this literature list. Bibliographies and other Resources Alizada, Afa et al. (Eds.) (2009-): Caucasus Edition: Journal of Conflict Transformation. [ISSN: 2155-5478]. URL: http://caucasusedition.net American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) (2006-): URL: http://arisc.org Aris, Stephen et al. (Eds.) (2006-): Russian Analytical Digest (RAD). [ISSN: 1863-0421]. URL: http://www.css. ethz.ch/publications/RAD_EN Books for Understanding (2014, August): Chechnya. URL: http://www.booksforunderstanding.org/chechnya/ list.html Broers, Laurence et al. (Eds.) (2013, October-): Caucasus Survey. URL: http://www.caucasus-survey.org Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Staff of CSIS’s Human Rights and Security Initiative (2007): Northern Caucasus and Russia. In: Counterterrorism Research Bibliography, 15-16. URL: http://csis. org/images/stories/hrs/counterterrorismbibliography.pdf Chitashvili, Marine; MacFarlane, S. Neil (Eds.) (2013-): Caucasus Social Science Review. [ISSN: 2233-3223]. URL: http://openjournals.gela.org.ge/index.php/CSSR Cornell, Svante E.; Nilsson, Niklas (Ed.) (2002, March-): The Central Asia-Caucasus ANALYST: A Biweekly Briefing on Current Affairs. URL: http://www.cacianalyst.org ISSN 2334-3745 122 February 2015 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 9, Issue 1 Demirtepe, Turgut; Hatipoğlu, Esra (Eds.) (2006-): Orta Asya ve Kafkasya Araştırmaları [Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies]. [ISSN: 1306-682X]. URL: http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/publicationdetails. aspx?publicationId=585b10bd-da4b-4d11-80b9-d933bfbf1f75 Hahn, Gordon M. (Author & Ed.) (2009-): Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER). URL: http://www.miis.edu/academics/faculty/ghahn/report Jackson, Alexander; Tatum, Jesse (Eds.) (2006-): Caucasian Review of International Affairs. [1865-6773]. URL: http://cria-online.org Murphy, Paul; Mitchell, L. (2005-): Russia-Eurasia Terror Watch (RETWA). URL: http://www.retwa.com Books and Edited Volumes Anemone, Anthony (Ed.) (2010): Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. Aydin, Mustafa (Ed.) (2011): Non-Traditional Security Threats and Regional Cooperation in the Southern Caucasus. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – E: Human and Societal Dynamics, Vol. 77). Amsterdam: IOS Press. Bascio, Patrick (2007): Defeating Islamic Terrorism: The Wahhabi Factor. Wellesley: Branden Books. Bichsel, Christine (2009): Conflict Transformation in Central Asia: Irrigation Disputes in the Ferghana Valley. (Central Asian Studies, Vol. 14). Abingdon: Routledge. Blank, Stephen J. (Ed.) (2012, October): Russia’s Homegrown Insurgency: Jihad in the North Caucasus. [e-Book]. Carlisle: Strategic Studies Institute (SSI). URL: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/ display.cfm?pubID=1116 Bowker, Mike (2007): Russia, America and the Islamic World. Aldershot: Ashgate. Bugajski, Janusz (2014, February): Conflict Zones: North Caucasus and Western Balkans Compared. [e-Book]. Washington, DC: The Jamestown Foundation. URL: http://jamestown.org/uploads/tx_jamquickstore/ Balkans-NC_Book_-_text.pdf Bullough, Oliver (2010): Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus. New York: Basic Books. Burger, Ethan S.; Cheloukhine, Serguei (2013): Counterterrorism in Areas of Political Unrest: The Case of Russia’s Northern Caucasus. (Springer Briefs in Criminology). New York: Springer. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5140-2 Companjen, Françoise; Marácz, László; Versteegh, Lia (Eds.) (2010): Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st Century: Essays on Culture, History and Politics in a Dynamic Context. Amsterdam: Pallas Publications. Dannreuther, Roland; March, Luke (Eds.) (2010): Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism. (BASEES/ Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, Vol. 66). Abingdon: Routledge. Derluguian, Georgi M. (2005): Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISSN 2334-3745 123 February 2015 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 9, Issue 1 de Waal, Thomas (2010): The Caucasus: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Donaldson, Robert H.; Nogee, Joseph L.; Nadkarni, Vidya (2014): The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests. (5th ed.). Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. Dunlop, John B. (1998): Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ergun, Ayça; Isaxanli, Hamlet (Eds.) (2013): Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in the EU, the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – E: Human and Societal Dynamics, Vol. 107). Amsterdam: IOS Press. Evangelista, Matthew (2002): The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution. Fitz, Duncan; Sanderson, Thomas M.; Marshall, Sung In (2014, May): Central Asian Militancy: A Primary Source Examination. [e-Book]. Washington, DC; Lanham: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. URL:http://csis.org/files/publication/140509_Fitz_ CentralAsianMilitancy_WEB.pdf Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Ed.) (2011): South Caucasus: 20 Years of Independence. [e-Book]. Tbilisi: Editor. URL: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/georgien/08706.pdf Gammer, Moshe (1994): Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. London: Frank Cass. Gammer, Moshe (2006): The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule. London: Hurst. Geifman, Anna (1993): Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Geifman, Anna (2010): Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia. Santa Barbara: Praeger Security International. Gilligan, Emma (2010): Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War. (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity). Princeton: Princeton University Press. Grant, Bruce (2009): The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus. (Culture and Society after Socialism). Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Griffin, Nicholas (2001): Caucasus: A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Hahn, Gordon M. (2007): Russia’s Islamic Threat. New Haven: Yale University Press. Heathershaw, John (2009): Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The politics of Peacebuilding and the Emergence of Legitimate Order. (Central Asian Studies, Vol. 16). Abingdon: Routledge. Hughes, James (2007): Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Johnson, Rob (2007): Oil, Islam and Conflict: Central Asia since 1945. London: Reaktion Books. ISSN 2334-3745 124 February 2015 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 9, Issue 1 Karagiannis, Emmanuel (2010): Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir. (Central Asian Studies, Vol. 21). Abingdon: Routledge. Khalid, Adeeb (2007): Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press. Khodarkovsky, Michael (2011): Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. King, Charles (2008): The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Knezys, Stasys; Sedlickas, Romanas (1999): The War in Chechnya. (Eastern European Studies, Vol. 8). College Station: Texas A&M University Press. Le Huérou, Anne et al. (Eds.) (2014): Chechnya at War and beyond. (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, Vol. 56). Abingdon: Routledge. Malek, Martin; Schor-Tschudnowskaja, Anna (Eds.) (2008): Europa im Tschetschenienkrieg: Zwischen politischer Ohnmacht und Gleichgültigkeit. (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Vol. 84). Stuttgart: ibidem. McKay, George et al. (Eds.) (2009): Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe. (Cultural Identity Studies, Vol. 15). Bern: Peter Lang. Menon, Rajan; Fedorov, Yuri E.; Nodia, Ghia (Eds.) (1999): Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia: The 21st Century Security Environment. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. Murphy, Paul J. (2004): The Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terrorism. Dulles: Brassey’s. National Research Council; Russian Academy of Sciences (Eds.) (2009): Russian Views on Countering Terrorism
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