Brian Glyn Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 1005772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Glyn Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian Glyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS B G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Seditious and Sinister Tribe: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate by Donald Rayfield (review)
Who Defeated Isis? The Pentagon's War Maps
Counter Jihad: America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million men and women to fight in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Brian Glyn Williams traces these unfolding wars from their origins in the Soviet invasion of Afg…
Operation “Retribution”: Putin's Military Campaign in Syria, 2015–16
The Crimean Tatars: From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest
Vatan
This chapter discusses the formation of the Vatan, a distinct Crimean Tatar communal identity, in the nineteenth century. It highlights the works of Ismail Gasprinsky, an educator who is considered to have laid the social foundation for the forging of a narrow Crimean Tatar national movement. Gasprinsky believed that the reactionary and conservative attributes of Islam were slowly killing the Crimean Tatars culturally. Together with a Volga Tatar…
Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Afghan rumour bazaar: Secret sub-cultures, hidden worlds and the everyday life of the absurd
During my trips to Afghanistan I encountered Afghans from all walks of life, from Taliban prisoners of war to farmers to former mujahideen, and got to know a little bit about what it was like to be
Afghanistan after the Soviets: From jihad to tribalism
In 1989 the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan leaving the embattled Afghan Communist government of President Mohammad Najibullah to fight against an emboldened mujahideen insurgency. Most experts expected a quick mujahideen victory once the Soviets were no longer directly involved in counterinsurgency operations in support of the Afghan government. But in the spring of 1989 the Afghan Communists beat the odds and defeated a mujahi…
On the Trail of the ‘Lions of Islam’: Foreign Fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 1980-2010
The CIA's Covert Predator Drone War in Pakistan, 2004–2010: The History of an Assassination Campaign
This article provides the first overview of the CIA's secret drone campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal areas from its origins in 2001's Operation Enduring Freedom to the end of 2010. In the process it addresses the spatial dimensions of the campaign (where are the strikes being directed and where do the drones fly from), Pakistani reactions to this threat to both their sovereignty and an internal Taliban enemy, technolo…
General Dostum and the Mazar i Sharif Campaign: New light on the role of Northern Alliance warlords in Operation Enduring Freedom
This report sheds new light on the CIA and US Special Forces' covert campaign alongside Afghan Northern Alliance leader General Dostum's horse-mounted Uzbeks during 2001's Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2003 and 2005 the author traveled over the Hindu Kush Mountains to the plains of Northern Afghanistan and lived with the legendary Northern Alliance opposition leader General Dostum. His aim was to recreate Dostum's campaign alongside the CIA and …
Talibanistan: History of a Transnational Terrorist Sanctuary
This article traces the movement of foreign jihadis to the Pashtun tribal lands situated on the volatile Pakistani-Afghan border from the time of the CIA-sponsored Operation ‘Cyclone’ to the re-emergence of the Taliban in 2006–2007. The role of autonomous jihadi groups such as the Kashmiri parties, Uighurs, Chechens, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan as well as the neo-Taliban insurgents and Al-Qaeda terrorist and 055 fighting forces are also analyz…
M ullah O mar's M issiles: A F ield R eport on S uicide B ombers in A fghanistan
Caucasus Belli: New Perspectives on Russia's Quagmire
From “Secessionist Rebels” To “Al-Qaeda Shock Brigades”: Assessing Russia's Efforts to Extend the Post-September 11th War on Terror to Chechnya
Jihad and ethnicity in post‐communist Eurasia. on the trail of transnational islamic holy warriors in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Chechnya and Kosovo
(2003). Jihad and ethnicity in post‐communist Eurasia. on the trail of transnational islamic holy warriors in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Chechnya and Kosovo. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 3-24
Hidden ethnocide in the Soviet Muslim borderlands: The ethnic cleansing of the Crimean Tatars
The Hidden Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims in the Soviet Union: The Exile and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars
The summer of 1989 was an eventful time in the Soviet Union on the nationalist level. Throughout the multi-ethnic union of Soviet nationalities the concept of homo sovieticus, the Russian-speaking Soviet citizen who had transcended his or her narrow sense of nationality in order to forge a greater sense of identification with the Soviet workers' state, was being shattered. In the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, national fronts …
The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars. An Historical Reinterpretation
With the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe the west has been confronted with the existence of several, little-understood Muslim ethnic groups in this region whose contested histories can be traced back to the Ottoman period and beyond. Previously overlooked Muslim ethnies, such as the Bulgarian Turks, Bosniaks, Pomaks, Kosovars, Chechens, and Crimean Tatars, have begun to receive considerable attention from both western scholars and the gen…
The Russo‐Chechen War: A Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Eurasia
Hijra and forced migration from nineteenth-century Russia to the Ottoman Empire: A critical analysis of the Great Tatar emigration of 1860-1861
Départ en terre d’islam et migration forcée des Tatars de Crimée vers l’Empire ottoman au xixe siècle. – Nous faisons ici la première analyse socio-politique détaillée du rôle qu’ont joué l’islam traditionaliste de Crimée et la politique colonialiste russe dans le vaste mouvement migratoire des Tatars de Crimée vers l’Empire ottoman après la guerre de Crimée. Basée sur des sources russes, turques, tatares et occidentales, cette analyse recrée les…
The Crimean Tatar exile in Central Asia: A case study in group destruction and survival
The CIA's Covert Predator Drone War in Pakistan, 2004–2010: The History of an Assassination Campaign
This article provides the first overview of the CIA's secret drone campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal areas from its origins in 2001's Operation Enduring Freedom to the end of 2010. In the process it addresses the spatial dimensions of the campaign (where are the strikes being directed and where do the drones fly from), Pakistani reactions to this threat to both their sovereignty and an internal Taliban enemy, technolo…
Hijra and forced migration from nineteenth-century Russia to the Ottoman Empire: A critical analysis of the Great Tatar emigration of 1860-1861
Départ en terre d’islam et migration forcée des Tatars de Crimée vers l’Empire ottoman au xixe siècle. – Nous faisons ici la première analyse socio-politique détaillée du rôle qu’ont joué l’islam traditionaliste de Crimée et la politique colonialiste russe dans le vaste mouvement migratoire des Tatars de Crimée vers l’Empire ottoman après la guerre de Crimée. Basée sur des sources russes, turques, tatares et occidentales, cette analyse recrée les…
On the Trail of the ‘Lions of Islam’: Foreign Fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 1980-2010
The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars. An Historical Reinterpretation
With the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe the west has been confronted with the existence of several, little-understood Muslim ethnic groups in this region whose contested histories can be traced back to the Ottoman period and beyond. Previously overlooked Muslim ethnies, such as the Bulgarian Turks, Bosniaks, Pomaks, Kosovars, Chechens, and Crimean Tatars, have begun to receive considerable attention from both western scholars and the gen…
The Hidden Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims in the Soviet Union: The Exile and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars
The summer of 1989 was an eventful time in the Soviet Union on the nationalist level. Throughout the multi-ethnic union of Soviet nationalities the concept of homo sovieticus, the Russian-speaking Soviet citizen who had transcended his or her narrow sense of nationality in order to forge a greater sense of identification with the Soviet workers' state, was being shattered. In the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, national fronts …
From “Secessionist Rebels” To “Al-Qaeda Shock Brigades”: Assessing Russia's Efforts to Extend the Post-September 11th War on Terror to Chechnya
The Crimean Tatar exile in Central Asia: A case study in group destruction and survival
General Dostum and the Mazar i Sharif Campaign: New light on the role of Northern Alliance warlords in Operation Enduring Freedom
This report sheds new light on the CIA and US Special Forces' covert campaign alongside Afghan Northern Alliance leader General Dostum's horse-mounted Uzbeks during 2001's Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2003 and 2005 the author traveled over the Hindu Kush Mountains to the plains of Northern Afghanistan and lived with the legendary Northern Alliance opposition leader General Dostum. His aim was to recreate Dostum's campaign alongside the CIA and …
Talibanistan: History of a Transnational Terrorist Sanctuary
This article traces the movement of foreign jihadis to the Pashtun tribal lands situated on the volatile Pakistani-Afghan border from the time of the CIA-sponsored Operation ‘Cyclone’ to the re-emergence of the Taliban in 2006–2007. The role of autonomous jihadi groups such as the Kashmiri parties, Uighurs, Chechens, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan as well as the neo-Taliban insurgents and Al-Qaeda terrorist and 055 fighting forces are also analyz…
M ullah O mar's M issiles: A F ield R eport on S uicide B ombers in A fghanistan
Jihad and ethnicity in post‐communist Eurasia. on the trail of transnational islamic holy warriors in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Chechnya and Kosovo
(2003). Jihad and ethnicity in post‐communist Eurasia. on the trail of transnational islamic holy warriors in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Chechnya and Kosovo. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 3-24
The Russo‐Chechen War: A Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Eurasia
Operation “Retribution”: Putin's Military Campaign in Syria, 2015–16
Hidden ethnocide in the Soviet Muslim borderlands: The ethnic cleansing of the Crimean Tatars
The Crimean Tatar exile in Central Asia: A case study in group destruction and survival
Hijra and forced migration from nineteenth-century Russia to the Ottoman Empire: A critical analysis of the Great Tatar emigration of 1860-1861
Départ en terre d’islam et migration forcée des Tatars de Crimée vers l’Empire ottoman au xixe siècle. – Nous faisons ici la première analyse socio-politique détaillée du rôle qu’ont joué l’islam traditionaliste de Crimée et la politique colonialiste russe dans le vaste mouvement migratoire des Tatars de Crimée vers l’Empire ottoman après la guerre de Crimée. Basée sur des sources russes, turques, tatares et occidentales, cette analyse recrée les…
The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars. An Historical Reinterpretation
With the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe the west has been confronted with the existence of several, little-understood Muslim ethnic groups in this region whose contested histories can be traced back to the Ottoman period and beyond. Previously overlooked Muslim ethnies, such as the Bulgarian Turks, Bosniaks, Pomaks, Kosovars, Chechens, and Crimean Tatars, have begun to receive considerable attention from both western scholars and the gen…
The Russo‐Chechen War: A Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Eurasia
Hidden ethnocide in the Soviet Muslim borderlands: The ethnic cleansing of the Crimean Tatars
The Hidden Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims in the Soviet Union: The Exile and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars
The summer of 1989 was an eventful time in the Soviet Union on the nationalist level. Throughout the multi-ethnic union of Soviet nationalities the concept of homo sovieticus, the Russian-speaking Soviet citizen who had transcended his or her narrow sense of nationality in order to forge a greater sense of identification with the Soviet workers' state, was being shattered. In the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, national fronts …
Jihad and ethnicity in post‐communist Eurasia. on the trail of transnational islamic holy warriors in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Chechnya and Kosovo
(2003). Jihad and ethnicity in post‐communist Eurasia. on the trail of transnational islamic holy warriors in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Chechnya and Kosovo. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 3-24
From “Secessionist Rebels” To “Al-Qaeda Shock Brigades”: Assessing Russia's Efforts to Extend the Post-September 11th War on Terror to Chechnya
Caucasus Belli: New Perspectives on Russia's Quagmire
Talibanistan: History of a Transnational Terrorist Sanctuary
This article traces the movement of foreign jihadis to the Pashtun tribal lands situated on the volatile Pakistani-Afghan border from the time of the CIA-sponsored Operation ‘Cyclone’ to the re-emergence of the Taliban in 2006–2007. The role of autonomous jihadi groups such as the Kashmiri parties, Uighurs, Chechens, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan as well as the neo-Taliban insurgents and Al-Qaeda terrorist and 055 fighting forces are also analyz…
M ullah O mar's M issiles: A F ield R eport on S uicide B ombers in A fghanistan
The CIA's Covert Predator Drone War in Pakistan, 2004–2010: The History of an Assassination Campaign
This article provides the first overview of the CIA's secret drone campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal areas from its origins in 2001's Operation Enduring Freedom to the end of 2010. In the process it addresses the spatial dimensions of the campaign (where are the strikes being directed and where do the drones fly from), Pakistani reactions to this threat to both their sovereignty and an internal Taliban enemy, technolo…
General Dostum and the Mazar i Sharif Campaign: New light on the role of Northern Alliance warlords in Operation Enduring Freedom
This report sheds new light on the CIA and US Special Forces' covert campaign alongside Afghan Northern Alliance leader General Dostum's horse-mounted Uzbeks during 2001's Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2003 and 2005 the author traveled over the Hindu Kush Mountains to the plains of Northern Afghanistan and lived with the legendary Northern Alliance opposition leader General Dostum. His aim was to recreate Dostum's campaign alongside the CIA and …
On the Trail of the ‘Lions of Islam’: Foreign Fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 1980-2010
Afghan rumour bazaar: Secret sub-cultures, hidden worlds and the everyday life of the absurd
During my trips to Afghanistan I encountered Afghans from all walks of life, from Taliban prisoners of war to farmers to former mujahideen, and got to know a little bit about what it was like to be
Afghanistan after the Soviets: From jihad to tribalism
In 1989 the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan leaving the embattled Afghan Communist government of President Mohammad Najibullah to fight against an emboldened mujahideen insurgency. Most experts expected a quick mujahideen victory once the Soviets were no longer directly involved in counterinsurgency operations in support of the Afghan government. But in the spring of 1989 the Afghan Communists beat the odds and defeated a mujahi…
The Crimean Tatars: From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest
Vatan
This chapter discusses the formation of the Vatan, a distinct Crimean Tatar communal identity, in the nineteenth century. It highlights the works of Ismail Gasprinsky, an educator who is considered to have laid the social foundation for the forging of a narrow Crimean Tatar national movement. Gasprinsky believed that the reactionary and conservative attributes of Islam were slowly killing the Crimean Tatars culturally. Together with a Volga Tatar…
Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Counter Jihad: America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million men and women to fight in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Brian Glyn Williams traces these unfolding wars from their origins in the Soviet invasion of Afg…
Operation “Retribution”: Putin's Military Campaign in Syria, 2015–16
Who Defeated Isis? The Pentagon's War Maps
A Seditious and Sinister Tribe: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate by Donald Rayfield (review)
Political science (18 works) · History (15 works) · Law (15 works) · History (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (7 works)