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The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the harbinger of a much larger Muslim challenge to Russia’s political stability and state integrity. So concludes Gordon M. Hahn in this meticulously researched analysis of Russia’s emerging Islamic threat. Hahn draws an explicit picture of an already sophisticated and effective Chechen jihadist network that is expanding the territorial scope of its operations with inspiration and some assistance from the global jihadist movement. Given its proximity to large stockpiles of diverse weapons, the expanding population of Russian-based Islamist terrorists is particular cause for alarm, the author warns.
The book lifts the veil on the Muslim challenge to Russia’s political stability, national security, and state integrity as well as the potentially grave threat to international and U.S. security. Hahn shows that many of the demographic, historical, socioeconomic, political, and religious factors sparking jihadi revolution in Muslim countries are extant in Russia and are driving revolutionary Islamist terrorism there. In a penetrating conclusion to the book, the author analyzes the policies that have fueled the rise of militant Islam and offers a series of important recommendations for policymakers.
- Sales Rank: #740478 in Books
- Published on: 2007-07-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.42" h x 1.47" w x 6.46" l, 1.76 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 368 pages
Review
"Russia's Islamic Threat" is not only a valuable addition to Russian studies, but also a landmanrk contribution to the broader literature on international terrorism and security studies from which all students of politics can and should benefit."--Dilshod Achilov, The Journal of the Politics of Religion (Dilshod Achilov The Journal of the Politics of Religion)
"'Russia's Islamic Threat' is not only a valuable addition to Russian studies, but also a landmark contribution to the broader literature on international terrorism and security studies from which all students of politics can and should benefit from."
— Dilshod Achilov, The Journal of Politics and Religion
(Dilshod Achilov The Journal of Politics and Religion)
About the Author
Gordon M. Hahn is senior researcher, Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies, Akribis Group, San Jose. He is the author of Russia’s Revolution from Above, 1985-2000 and numerous articles on topics relating to Russia and the former Soviet Union. He lives in Mountain View, CA.
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Russia's Islamic Threat
By Michael Griswold
Russia's Islamic ThreatThis is published by Yale University press so the language is more academic and conscience making this a challenging book to read through, but if your looking for a detailed book on Islamic Terrorism in Russia then this is the book for you.
In Russia's Islamic Threat, Gordon M. Hahn talks about the spreading jihadist movement throughout many of the Muslim republics within Russia, beyond Chechnya and potential reasons why jihad is such an appealing idea to some Muslim populations within Russia like mass unemployment, and a state tendency to favor the Slavic majority within Russia. He also discusses how Vladimir Putin's recentralization of power away from the individial regions and into the hands of the state could and in many republics has given rise to radical Islamic cells within these republics that have carried out terrorist attacks in places such as Ingushetia, Dagestan, and the KBR.
Hahn closes with a discussion of policy steps that can be taken by both US and Russian forces to combat Islamic terrorism and decrease the likelihood of another Beslan or even worse a terrorist getting his hands on Nuclear material and creating a weapon that can be used to inflict mass casualties.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A selective, sneering disappointment
By Abdulahad Ayub
This is a prime exhibit of an agenda-focused, politicized book that gives a little knowledge mixed with a lot of propaganda. "Russia's Islamic threat", a very paranoid title itself, gives some insight as to the author's thought process. Happily Hahn is not exactly opposed to Islam within or around Russia--more to public manifestations. Much as neoconservatives and liberal hawks did after 9/11 for the United States, Hahn ties any and every even mild Islamist movement with the poorly conceptualized "global jihad"--by which, apparently, he means Islamists with global networks, a far less daunting prospect in a globalized world than it sounds.
Using the United States' traditional hostility towards Russia as a fig leaf to explain that Russia has been misunderstood--itself not exactly a flawed premise, but one that he exploits to the full--Hahn goes on to term any armed Islamist group within Russia as unambiguously, evil, barbaric terrorists. Not once does he mention that even the most heinous crimes of the most hardened Islamist rebels in places like Chechnya--such as the horrific Beslan school crisis--were, however horrible, a fraction of the scorched-earth, collective punishment campaign launched by the Russian state that entirely flattened Chechnya and killed anywhere from a million to two million Chechens. That is not a justification of the brutal terrorism that was waged at such venues as Beslan school by Chechen rebels, but it is entirely ignored and thereby the conflict given a one-sided, distorted history that paints Chechens as barbaric savages (with an occasional "good" Chechen, like the brutal pro-Russian puppet thug Ramzan Kadyrov) and the Russian army as a poor, misunderstood entity unfairly vilified by external observers intrinsically anti-Russia. It is true that there is an anti-Russian bias in the media, but it pales before the anti-Islam bias & in fact the bloody conflict in Chechnya has been looked through nearly exclusively through either a Russian state lens--like Hahn's own perspective--or a post 9/11 perspective--which paints, like Hahn, the Chechen rebels as barely different from Al-Qaeda--or an evasive "it's a horrible tragedy" perspective, which is certainly true but misses an in-depth coverage that is needed on both sides.
Hahn's analysis of the various Chechen actors is not bad--though again, in his attempt to paint Russia as the aggrieved stabilizer threatened by evil Chechens, he links everything, even the vaguest and most circumstantial links, to Al-Qaeda. The Arab commander Khattab, for instance, did not belong to Al-Qaeda; nor did he, as Hahn asserts, impose Saudi-style "Wahhabism" in Chechnya (indeed correspondences between rebel leaders showed that Khattab was wary of imposing his interpretation of Islam on the famously assertive Chechens). Instead the growth of Saudi-style "purist Islam" was the result of 1) foreign funds, which were not coercive but probably did make a difference and 2), most importantly, the cooption of the traditional Sufi clergy like Akhmad Kadyrov into the Russian repression, which naturally forced embittered Chechens to look elsewhere to hardline groups.
Hahn's dissection of the Islamic dimension is painful and either willfully selective or ignorant (neither can be discounted in the professional counterterrorism field, which has many embarrassingly underqualified analysts). He is better on inter-Chechen conflicts, but again selective. For instance, it is true that the hardliners like Shamil Basayev made it extremely difficult for Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov to control the briefly independent Islamic republic (1996-99). But Maskhadov was also crippled & undermined by the Russian regime, which in an attempt to consolidate the "tough on terrorism" stances of the corrupt Yeltsin and the hardline Putin always reneged on deals it made with the hard-pressed Maskhadov, only to declare him unfit and incompetent when he was backed into a corner. That goes unmentioned. So does the fact that even the most bloodthirsty and ruthless Chechen commanders, like Basayev, paled in front of the vicious pro-Russian thug Ramzan Kadyrov, who effectively became an unaccountable baron whose violence far outranked that of even Basayev and other extremists. This selectiveness is a major flaw and undermines Hahn's credibility. It is especially bizarre because Hahn does have a ton of useful information on his website. He just picks and chooses from it, always painting the darkest possible scenario"
Outside of the dominant Chechen conflict, the problem with the book's stance towards Islam is to view it--as the title implies--purely from a threat perspective, which generates a naturally defensive, reactive, paranoid & self-defeating view (this applies, by the way, not only to Russia but to Western countries like the United States, France & others who have abandoned qualified experts on Islam, Muslim history & conflict resolution in favour of ranting extremists and career scaremongers). Russia does have a significant Muslim minority that it must deal with while protecting the interests of the state & its majority citizens. But paranoid, selective regime loudspeakers like Hahn will not help.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars
By Gordon Peck
This is not good bedtime reading. It'll scare the hell out of you.
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