State-Building as Lawfare

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-24595-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

State-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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazarev, Egor

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 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.

Über Autor(innen)

Lazarev, Egor
Egor Lazarev is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.