1st Edition

Russia's Securitization of Chechnya How War Became Acceptable

By Julie Wilhelmsen Copyright 2017
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides an in-depth analysis of how mobilization and legitimation for war are made possible, with a focus on Russia's conflict with Chechnya. Through which processes do leaders and their publics come to define and accept certain conflicts as difficult to engage in, and others as logical, even necessary? Drawing on a detailed study of changes in Russia’s approach to Chechnya, this... Read more

1. Introduction

2. A theoretical framework for the study of acceptable war

3. Method and sources

4. The interwar period: a case of desecuritization

5. Russian official representations of Chechnya and Russia

6. Historical representations of Chechnya and Russia

7. Political elite representations of Chechnya and Russia

8. Expert representations of Chechnya and Russia

9. Journalistic representations of Chechnya and Russia

10. Sealing off Chechnya

11. Bombing Chechnya

12. Cleansing Chechnya

13. Conclusions and perspectives

Biography

Julie Wilhelmsen is Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway and has a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo. She is co-editor of Russia's Encounter with Globalization: Actors, Processes and Critical Moments (2011).