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Russia's Islamic Threat

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The book offers an excellent overview of the role of islam in Russia with focus on the Chechen conflicts. Last section on the threats to the international community is a bit light, but if you read the book you can draw your own conclusions.

Russia's Islamic ThreatThis is published by Yale University press so the language is more academic and conscience making this a challenging book to read through, but if your looking for a detailed book on Islamic Terrorism in Russia then this is the book for you.

In Russia's Islamic Threat, Gordon M. Hahn talks about the spreading jihadist movement throughout many of the Muslim republics within Russia, beyond Chechnya and potential reasons why jihad is such an appealing idea to some Muslim populations within Russia like mass unemployment, and a state tendency to favor the Slavic majority within Russia. He also discusses how Vladimir Putin's recentralization of power away from the individial regions and into the hands of the state could and in many republics has given rise to radical Islamic cells within these republics that have carried out terrorist attacks in places such as Ingushetia, Dagestan, and the KBR.

Hahn closes with a discussion of policy steps that can be taken by both US and Russian forces to combat Islamic terrorism and decrease the likelihood of another Beslan or even worse a terrorist getting his hands on Nuclear material and creating a weapon that can be used to inflict mass casualties.