Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus

The Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus offers an integrated, multidisciplinary overview of the historical, ethno-linguistic, cultural, socio-economic and political complexities of the Caucasus. Covering both the North and South Caucasus, the book gathers together leading Western, Caucasian and Russian scholars of the region from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Following a thorough introduction by the editors, the handbook is divided into six parts which combine thematic and chronological principles:

• Place, peoples and culture
• Political history
• The contemporary Caucasus: politics, economics and societies
• Conflict and political violence
• The Caucasus in the wider world
• Societal and cultural dynamics.

This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in Russian and Eastern-European studies, Eurasian history and politics, and religious and Islamic studies.

Galina M. Yemelianova is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK. She is a co-editor of Routledge’s triannual journal Caucasus Survey and a member of the National Advisory Board of Europe-Asia Studies. She is also the author of Russia and Islam: A Historical Survey (2002), Muslims of Central Asia: An Introduction (2019) and the editor of Islam in Post-Soviet Russia: Public and Private Faces (2003, Routledge) and Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union (2010, Routledge).

Laurence Broers is Caucasus Programme Director at Conciliation Resources, UK. He is the author of Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry (2019), and the co-founder and co-chief editor of the Caucasus Survey. He is also the co-editor of Armenia's Velvet Revolution: Authoritarian Decline and Civil Resistance in a Multipolar World (forthcoming in 2020). He is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK, and an Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House.