TY  - BOOK
AU  - BLANK Stephen
TI  - Russia's homegrown insurgency : :  jihad in the North Caucasus / 
SN  - 9781584875444 (pbk)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Carlisle, PA : 
PB  -  Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 
KW  - JIHAD
KW  - Insurgency
KW  -  Russia (Federation)
KW  -  Caucasus, Northern
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Counterinsurgency
N1  - The Caucasus emirate jihadists : the security and strategic implications / Gordon M. Hahn -- The North Caucasus in Russia and Russia in the North Caucasus : state approaches and political dynamics in the turbulent region / Sergey Markedonov -- The "Afghanization" of the North Caucasus : causes and implications of a changing conflict / Svante E. Cornell
N2  - The three papers offered in this monograph provide from American, Russian and Swedish perspectives, a detailed analysis of the insurgency and counterinsurgency campaigns being conducted by Islamist rebels against Russia in the North Caucasus. Russian President Dimitry Medvedev has said that this insurgency is the greatest domestic threat to Russia's security, yet little is known about it in the West
UR  -  http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=1116
ER  -