Russia's Ruinous Chechen War

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4453687
AutoresRajan Menon, Graham E Fuller
Ano2000
Volume79
Fascículo2
Páginas32
Data de publicação2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20049639
OpenAlexW2546337451
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4

The Russian Federation may be falling apart?and its war against Chechnya is showing why. Unfortunately, most observers of the war in Chechnya miss the larger implications, limiting their analysis to the struggle for independence of one small region. Moscow blames radical Islamists for the trouble. Despite the unde niable role of fundamentalists in the Caucasus, however, Moscow had a greater hand in the federation's decline than it cares to admit. Russia's latest war with Chechnya was sparked in August 1999 when radical Islamists, many of whom had infiltrated from Chechnya, staged uprisings in the neighboring southern Russian republic of Dagestan. Russian troops were sent and, despite Moscow's reassurances that the conflict was under control, the operations had evolved by September into the second full-scale war between Russia and Chechnya in five years. The innumerable deaths, the relentless bombardment of cities, and the torrent of refugees are eerily familiar, recalling the horrors of the 1994-96 Russo-Chechen war. The Russian army?even while weakened and demoralized?has been more successful this time; Russian officials are proclaiming swift progress. But no real solution?military or political?is in sight. Instead

Ancient history · Chechen · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Regional science · Russian federation · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · History · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Russia and Soviet political economy