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Conceptual frames. General trends in the interaction of religion and politics as applied to the South Caucasus / Ansgar Jödicke ; Ethnicity, nation and religion: current debates and South Caucasian reality / Alexander Aagadjanian ; Democratic repertoires: the South Caucasus case(s) / Evert van der Zweerde -- Religion and politics. Introduction / Ketevan Khutsishvili ; Secularization and desecularization in Georgia: state and church under the Saakashvili government (2003-2012) / Barbare Janelidze ; Political power and church construction in Armenia / Yulia Antonyan ; Islam in Azerbaijan: revival and political involvement / Elnur Ismayilov -- Religion, nationalism and education. Introduction / Farda Asadov ; Building Georgian national identity: a comparison of two turning points in history / Tatia Kekelia ; Challenges for women's education in independent Azerbaijan / Nigar Gozalova ; Constructing identities through general education: religion within the framework of national identity in Armenia / Satenik Mkrtchyan -- Cultural values, ideology and democracy. Introduction / Tigran Matosyan ; An analysis of counter-hegemony: challenges of political opposition in Azerbaijan / Rashad Shirinov ; Myths and politics: "Old" Beliefs and "New" aspirations in independent Armenia / Sona Hovhannisyan ; Collectivism/individualism in the South Caucasus. Implications for democracy / Tigran Matosyan -- International context and external impacts. Introduction / Hovhannes Hovhannisyan ; Sh'a politics, "Strategic Culture" and Iran's relations with the South Caucasus / Tatevik Mkrtchyan ; Andrey Makarychev: Russia's soft power in the South Caucasus: discourses, communication, hegemony / Alexander Kornilov ; Between ambition and realism: Turkey's engagement in the South Caucasus / Bayram Balci.

"Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred between the Russian leader and his foreign partners and opponents. Russia's most prominent independent journalist Mikhail Zygar has had unprecedented access to people who are either currently or were formerly allied with Putin, but have only now agreed to reveal their impressions of the powerful president and his circle of power. Zygar's in-depth interviews include Putin's press secretary, Deputy Prime Minister, former finance minister, former Kremlin chief of staff, former mayor of Moscow, former presidential candidate, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, former presidents of Ukraine and Georgia Viktor Yushchenko and Mikhail Saakashvili, and many other key Russian and Western politicians and diplomats. For many people from Putin's closest circle, it was the first time they could tell their stories. Each chapter has a main character, who gives an insight into the origins of Vladimir Putin's transformation. Cumulatively, All the Kremlin's Men explains to the English-speaking audience what has happened to Russia, what the role of the West is in its destiny, and how this destiny could play out going forward. It is a delicious portrait of the strangeness of modern Russia, a country swirling with intrigue and paranoia, peppered with fateful missteps and confusion, and the brooding, volatile, magnificently unpredictable figure of Vladimir Putin"--