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...

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Main Author:	Lazarev, Egor 1989- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:	Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Subjects:	Law / Russia (Federation) / Chechni︠a︡ Lawfare / Russia (Federation) / Chechni︠a︡ Nation-building / Russia (Federation) / Chechni︠a︡ Legal polycentricity / Russia (Federation) / Chechni︠a︡ Customary law / Russia / Chechni︠a︡ Muslims / Legal status, laws, etc / Russia (Federation) / Chechni︠a︡ State building Gesetzgebung Tschetschenien
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Feb 2023) State-building as lawfare : the view from above and from below -- The field : ethnography of legal pluralism in postwar Chechnya -- The Chechen way : lawfare under Imperial and Soviet rule -- "There are no camels in Chechnya!" lawfare during the independence period -- "We will use every resource!" jurisdictional politics in postwar Chechnya -- Laws in conflict : hybrid legal order in contemporary Chechnya -- "People need law" : demand for social order after conflict -- Chechen women go to court : war and women's lawfare -- Conclusion
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xv, 321 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009245913
DOI:	10.1017/9781009245913