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State-Building As Lawfare : Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya by Egor Lazarev (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009245953

ISBN-139781009245951

eBay Product ID (ePID)24057245909

Product Key Features

Book TitleState-Building As Lawfare : Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya

Number of PagesXv, 321 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreLaw, Political Science

AuthorEgor Lazarev

Book SeriesCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

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LCCN2022-036448

Reviews'This is a fascinating, deeply researched, and creative study of legal pluralism in Chechnya. Based on months of ethnographic field work, scores of interviews and informal conversations, and analysis of original surveys, State-Building as Lawfare contributes to our understanding of post-conflict dynamics and the impact of warfare on state and society, and, especially, on gender.' Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University, 'A marvel of comparative politics scholarship. Blending surveys, courtroom observations, and interviews, Lazarev shows us how officials manipulate state and non-state legal systems and how ordinary people make choices that shape state sovereignty.' Mark Fathi Massoud, UC Santa Cruz and author of Shari'a, Inshallah, 'State Building as Lawfare is a tour de force. Contra the conventional wisdom, Lazarev highlights how government officials and members of the population both engage in "forum shopping" between state and non-state justice institutions to advance their interests, resulting in a bottom-up process of state-building that is deeply gendered. Based on exceptional multi-methods fieldwork in Chechnya, a challenging site for rigorous research, Lazarev combines extensive interviews and observations with original surveys and administrative data.' Melani Cammett, Harvard University

Dewey Edition23/eng/20220930

Dewey Decimal340.909475/2

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Theory and Ethnography: 1. State-building as lawfare: the view from above and from below; 2. The field: ethnography of legal pluralism in postwar Chechnya; Part II. Lawfare and Political Order: 3. The Chechen way: lawfare under imperial and Soviet rule; 4. 'There are no camels in Chechnya!' lawfare during the independence period; 5. 'We will use every resource!' jurisdictional politics in postwar Chechnya; Part III. Lawfare and Social Order: 6. Laws in conflict: hybrid legal order in contemporary Chechnya; 7. 'People need law:' demand for social order after conflict; 8: Chechen women go to court: war and women's lawfare; Conclusion; References.

SynopsisState-Building as Lawfare explores the use of state and non-state legal systems by both politicians and ordinary people in postwar Chechnya. The book addresses two interrelated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state legal systems at the expense of state law, and why do some members of repressed ethnic minorities choose to resolve their everyday disputes using state legal systems instead of non-state alternatives? The book documents how the rulers of Chechnya promote and reinvent customary law and Sharia in order to borrow legitimacy from tradition and religion, increase autonomy from the metropole, and accommodate communal authorities and former rebels. At the same time, the book shows how prolonged armed conflict disrupted the traditional social hierarchies and pushed some Chechen women to use state law, spurring state formation from below., How does the state impose the rules that regulate everyday life? This book explores state-building as lawfare - the use of state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals - to analyze how Russian state law, Sharia law, and customary law interact in postwar Chechnya.