The diff usion of violence in the North Caucasus of Russia, 1999-2010.
Despite an increase in attention to 'geography' in civil war research, local dynamics in violence remain poorly understood. To address this gap, we analyze disaggregated violent event data for the North Caucasus of Russia from the start of the second Chechen war, in August 1999, to July 2010. We emp...
| Publicado en: | Environment & Planning A Vol. 44; no. 10; pp. 2379 - 2397 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct2012
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