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Ethno-nationalism presents a multitude of challenges to the structure of the international political system and to the internal governance of states. This volume explores the multifaceted nature of these challenges across the world, while also examining how states have responded to meet them, through a wide range of case studies and comparisons.

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-Qaʻida 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

This text provides a concise explanation of an ethno-symbolic approach to the study of nations and nationalism and simultaneously embodies a general statement of Anthony D. Smith's contribution to this approach and its application to the central issues of nations and nationalism.

This important volume provides a clear, concise and comprehensive guide to the history of Sikh nationalism from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on A. D. Smith's ethno-symbolic approach, Gurharpal Singh and Giorgio Shani use a new integrated methodology to understanding the historical and sociological development of modern Sikh nationalism. By emphasising the importance of studying Sikh nationalism from the perspective of the nation-building projects of India and Pakistan, the recent literature on religious nationalism and the need to integrate the study of the diaspora with the Sikhs in South Asia, they provide a fresh approach to a complex subject. Singh and Shani evaluate the current condition of Sikh nationalism in a globalised world and consider the lessons the Sikh case offers for the comparative study of ethnicity, nations and nationalism.