Content: Informal power structures in Russia and ethno-political conflict in the northern Caucasus / Maxim U. Barbashin --
Islam and the legal system in the northwestern Caucasus / Irina L. Babich --
'Re-Islamisation' and ethno-nationalism : the Circassians (Adyghe) of the northwestern Caucasus and their diaspora / Chen Bram --
The Republic of Adygheia : perceptions of rights, freedoms and life chances of ordinary people / Cemre Erciyes --
The events of November 1996 in Kabardino-Balkaria and their prehistory / Julietta Meskhidze --
Russian policies towards Islamic extremism in the northern Caucasus and destabilization in Kabardino-Balkaria / Walter Richmond --
Ideology and conflict : Chechen political nationalism prior to, and during, ten years of war / Ekaterina Sokirianskaia --
The Orstkhoy revival : identity and border dispute in the northern Caucasus / Victor A. Shnirelman --
'I can fight, army against army' : the 1994-1996 Russo-Chechen War, strategies and misconceptions / Yagil Henkin --
Allah's foot soldiers : an assessment of the role of foreign fighters and Al-QaΚ»ida in the Chechen insurgency / Brian Glyn Williams --
From the challenge of nationalism to the challenge of Islam : the case of Daghestan / Moshe Gammer --
'Wahhabis, ' Democrats and everything in between : the development of Islamic activism in post-Soviet Azerbaijan / Sofie Bedford --
Demography of north Caucasian Jewry : a note on population dynamics and shifting identity / Mark Tolts.