1. A Spreading Danger: Time for a New Policy Toward Chechnya
- Author:
- Anatol Lieven, Fiona Hill, and Thomas de Waal
- Publication Date:
- 03-2005
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Abstract:
- The ongoing conflict in and around Chechnya is helping to feed the wider international jihadi movement, and is endangering the West as well as Russia. The next “soft target” of North Caucasian terrorism could be a Western one. Mutual recriminations over the conflict have badly damaged relations between Russia and the West. While most of the blame for this lies with Russian policies, the Western approach to the issue has often been unhelpful and irresponsible. Denunciations of Russian behavior have not been matched by a real understanding of the Chechen conflict or a real commitment to help.
- Topic:
- Diplomacy and Peace Studies
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, and North Caucasus