Name: Journal of Soviet & Post-Soviet Politics & Society -- Volume 2, Number 2
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Journal of Soviet & Post-Soviet Politics & Society -- Volume 2, Number 2

2016/2: Violence in the Post-Soviet Space

Contributions by: Mischa Gabowitsch, Contributions by: Anais Marin, Contributions by: Hanna Smith, Contributions by: Danielle Jackman, Contributions by: Peter Marton, Contributions by: Annamaria Kiss, Contributions by: Olga Lebedeva, Edited by: Julie Fedor, Edited by: Samuel Greene, Edited by: Andre Härtel, Edited by: Andrey Makarychev, Consultant editor: Andreas Umland

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Published: 01-Oct-2016
ISBN: 9783838209487

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284 Pages

Subjects:
Violence in society
Political oppression & persecution

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This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. The central preoccupation is to examine both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, in this space. Simultaneously the special issue aspires to situate these discourses and practices in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic and separatist conflict, and to examine these from political, legal, and security studies perspectives. The issue approaches the problem of violence in the post-Soviet space from three perspectives: The international-structural, inter-state, and domestic-political. The contributors focus on structural sources of violence: The relevance of the self-determination principle, the role of democratisation, and the relationship between violent behaviour inside and outside the state. They also analyse the role of the Russian Federation in generating, perpetuating, and mitigating political violence. Finally, they adopt a bottom-up approach, exploring how non-state actors contribute to political violence.

Julie Fedor is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.

Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.

Andrey Makarychev is guest professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science at the University of Tartu. His areas of expertise include EURussia studies, the EURussia common neighborhood, and regionalism in the post-Soviet space. He is co-author (with Alexandra Yatsyk) of Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe. Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (Nomos, 2016) and Lotmans Cultural Semiotics and the Political (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017). His articles appeared in Russian Politics, Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Ethnopolitics, Geopolitics, Slavic Review, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, and other academic outlets.

Olga Lebedeva ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls fÃ¼r Russistik und Komparatistik an der UniversitÃ¤t Tomsk, Russland.