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Power ideas and conflict: ideology, linkage and leverage in Crimea and Chechnya

Abstract:
In this article, we not only extend the concept of linkages and leverage to the realm of conflict studies, we also add an important linkage – ideas about political power which we call power ideas – and we expand on the causal mechanisms that turns linkages into leverage in a conflict situation. We examine the impact of the power ideas of nationalism and Islamism in the cases of two major conflicts in the region: Crimea and Chechnya. Within-case comparison of episodes of conflict-prevention vs. annexation (Crimea in the 1990s vs. 2014) and violent conflict vs. cooptation in Chechnya (1990s and 1999 onwards) provides the empirical basis to assess the scope and limitations of the international context allowing for the activation of power ideas and their transformation into leverage.
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Politics & Int Relations
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Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Journal:
East European Politics More from this journal
Volume:
32
Issue:
3
Pages:
314-334
Publication date:
2016-03-16
Acceptance date:
2015-09-18
ISSN:
2159-9173


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pubs:579203
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uuid:ff3107b2-b036-4c95-b44e-957b0dd96ed2
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579203
Deposit date:
2015-12-09

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