State-building as lawfare : custom, Sharia, and state law in postwar Chechnya /
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Author / Creator: | Lazarev, Egor, 1989- author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023. ©2023 |
Description: | xv, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics Cambridge studies in comparative politics. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13157050 |
ISBN: | 9781009245951 1009245953 9781009245944 1009245945 |
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Notes: | Based on author's thesis (doctoral -Columbia University, 2018) issued under title: Laws in Conflict : Legacies of War and Legal Pluralism in Chechnya. Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index. |
Summary: | "State-Building as Lawfare offers a unique study on how the state and other social forces regulate everyday life. Focusing on the case of Russian state presence in postwar Chechnya, the book explores how state and non-state legal systems are used to achieve political goals. Egor Lazarev applies this theory of state-building as lawfare to study how politicians and individuals navigate Russian state law, Sharia, and customary law in postwar Chechnya. The book addresses two interrelated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state legal systems at the expense of state law, and why do some members of repressed ethnic minorities choose to resolve their everyday disputes using state legal systems instead of non-state alternatives? By analyzing the legacies of the prolonged armed conflict of the 1990s and 2000s, Lazarev sheds an important light on state-building from above and below"-- |
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