North Caucasus Articles

Articles and researches about North Caucasia from various authors

The North Caucasus region is the part of Russia that slopes up towards the main ridge of the Caucasus mountains, often considered the border between Europe and Asia. It is home to dozens of nationalities and languages.



                                                                       
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United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal For The Northern Caucasus (Russian Federation)
1 January - 31 December 2001, UNITED NATIONS  /  PDF

North Caucasus: On the Brink of Far-Reaching Destabilisation
C W Blandy, Conflict Studies Research Centre, England  /  PDF

The Caucasus: A Challenge for Europe

Svante E. Cornell & S. Frederic Starr, Silk Road Paper, June2006  /  PDF

Religion as a Factor in Caucasian Conflicts
 Svante E. Cornell, Civil Wars, Vol. 1 No.3 (Autumn 1998), pp. 46-64  /  PDF

Peace or War? The Prospects for Conflicts in the Caucasus
Svante E. Cornell, 1997  /  PDF

Autonomy as a Source of Conflict: Caucasian Conflicts in Theoretical Perspective
Svante E. Cornell, Cornell Caspian Consulting, World Politics, vol. 54 no. 2, 2002  /  PDF

The Politics of a Name: Between Consolidation and Separation in the Northern Caucasus
 Victor Shnirelman, Acta Slavica Iaponica  /  PDF

“The Emperor Carries a Gun”: Capacity Building in the North Caucasus
 Katherine S. Layton  /  PDF

The Soviet War against 'Fifth Columnists':The Case of Chechnya, 1942-4
Jeffrey Burds, Journal of Contemporary History, 2007 / PDF

Russia And The Caucasus
Paul B. Henze  /  PDF

The Return of History
Paul B. Henze and S. Enders Wimbush  /  PDF

Conflict In The Caucasus: Background, Problems, and Prospects for Mitigation

 Paul B. Henze

Islam in the North Caucasus
The Example of Chechnia, Paul B. Henze /  PDF

Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and
Its Implications for the Caucasus. 1997 Caucasus Conference Report

Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (University of California, Berkeley)

The North Caucasus: politics or war?
Thomas de Wall, 07 September 2004  /  PDF

 North Caucasus: At a glance
BBC News

The North Caucasus:  An empire's fraying edge
Economist,  Feb 2005, Beslan, Nalchik, Nazran And Vladikavkaz

Ethnic Divisions, Politics and Vahhabism in the Post-Soviet North Caucasus
Khasan Dzutsev, Abraham Pershitz, Ken Roberts  /  PDF

Ethnicity in the Caucasus: Ethnic Relations and Quasi-Ethnic Conflicts
By S.A. Arutiunov Head, Caucasian Studies Department Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences
 

The Russian Military Campaign in the North Caucasus: Is a Victory in Sight?

 Pavel K Baev, Research Professor, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)  /  PDF

Ethno-Political Change in the North Caucasus
Larisa L. Khoperskaya, RAND, Conference Proceedings
Conflict and Consensus in Ethno-Political and Center-Peripheral Relations in Russia (Chapter 4)  /  PDF

Social Violence and Political Transformation in the North Caucasus
Research Report, Charles King, Georgetown Universty  / PDF

North Caucasus: the Russian Gordian knot
The key problems and conflicts in the region and the effect thereof on the future of Russia

Maciej Falkowski  /  PDF

“The Future of the North Caucasus”
Conference Transcript, Panel 3, The JAMESTOWN Foundation  /  PDF

The Dynamics of Civil War Outcomes in Bosnia and the North Caucasus
A Project of the Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) Initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Briefing - Torture, “disappearances” and alleged unfair trials in Russia’s North Caucasus
AMNESTY International, RUSSIAN FEDERATION Reports

Health Action in the North Caucasus
World Health Organization, WHO Europe

MSF Activity Reports on North Caucasus
Médecins Sans Frontičres, All Articles from North Caucasus

Programme of Action: Development and S tability in the North Caucasus
FEWER International, 20 July 2006  /  PDF

Strategic Reconstruction and Development Assessment - North Caucasus
FEWER International, 16 January 2006  /  PDF

Russia and Turkey in the Caucasus: Moving Together to Preserve the Status Quo?
Fiona Hill, Omer Taspinar, January 2006, IFRI Research Programme Russia  /  PDF

Youth in the Northern Caucasus: From Risk to Opportunity
The World Bank

Blowback - Russia needs to rethink North Caucasus - Recommendation to the Government of Russia
by Simon Roughneen, The Oxford Council on Good Governance, OCGG Security Section  /  PDF

Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo-European
By Vyacheslav V. Ivanov  /  PDF

Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Variation in Caucasus
I. Nasidze, E. Y. S. Ling, D. Quinque, I. Dupanloup, R. Cordaux, S. Rychkov, O. Naumova,
O. Zhukova, N. Sarraf-Zadegan, G. A. Naderi, S. Asgary, S. Sardas, D. D. Farhud, T. Sarkisian,
C. Asadov, A. Kerimov and M. Stoneking  /  PDF


Mitochondrial DNA variation and language replacements in the Caucasus
Ivan Nasidze, Mark Stoneking  /  PDF

Testing hypotheses of language replacement in the Caucasus: evidence from the Y-chromosome
Ivan Nasidze, Tamara Sarkisian, Azer Kerimov, Mark Stoneking  /  PDF

Alu insertion polymorphisms and the genetic structure of human populations from the Caucasus
Ivane Nasidze, Gregory M Risch, Myles Robichaux, Stephen T. Sherry, Mark A Batzer and Mark Stoneking  /  PDF

Molecular analysis of Neanderthal DNA from the Northern Caucasus
Igor V. Ovchinnikov, Anders Götherström, Galina P. Romanova, Vitaliy M. Kharitonov, Kerstin Lidén and William Goodwin

     


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