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In the U.S. House of Representatives, congressional members were out of sorts. It was 2006 and the American war in Iraq was flailing. Billions were being spent on infrastructural development as well as military forces. A constitution had been written to inspire cooperation between the Shi’ia majority and the Sunni and Kurdish minorities, yet sectarian violence continued. Sunni parliamentarians who had won in recent elections— admittedly a minority of the seats—were boycotting the legislature. And many in the Kurdish territories aspired to statehood, despite the generous autonomy they had been provided. Granted, the Democratic majority disapproved of George W. Bush’s war and professed empathy for the Iraqis, but yet the lack of political reconciliation appeared incomprehensible. It seemed like the Iraqi population did not even want peace.
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Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell” America and the Age of Genocide (New York: Harper Collins, 2002).
See, for example, John B. Dunlop, Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998);
Monica Duffy Toft, The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of Territory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003);
Daniel Treisman, “Russia’s ‘Ethnic Revival’: The Separatist Activism of Regional Leaders in a Postcommunist Order,” World Politics 49, no. 2 (1997): 212–49.
Some examples are Matthew Evangelista, The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002);
Anatol Lieven, Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998);
Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov, Chechnya: Lift in a War-Torn Society (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004).
Christoph Stefes, Understanding Post-Soviet Transitions: Corruption, Collusion, and Clientelism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
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George, J.A. (2009). Conclusion. In: The Politics of Ethnic Separatism in Russia and Georgia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102323_7
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