The roots of Islamic terrorism.

How should we understand the interconnections between environmental change, migration, and conflict in Africa? Should the rise of Islamic terrorism and Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria be directly linked to the drying of Lake Chad? Should cattle raiding in Kenya be seen as a result of drought across East Africa? Does the constrained migration of the pastoral Tuareg in the Sahel causally connect to desertification and their rebellion against governmental forces? Despite the compelling and often persuasive case for directly connecting environmental change to migration and conflict, there is a growing agreement in both the environment-migration and climate-conflict spheres that intervening variables determine if and how environmental change causes population movements and political violence. This article presents a case for migration as an intermediary and bidirectional causal variable. The article argues that close attention needs to be paid to local-level manifestations of conflict and (mal)adaptive forms of migration to understand the potential propensity of environmental change to lead to conflict in Africa.

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Islamic terrorism and the United States

Strategic Analysis ◽

10.1080/09700160008455188 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 23 (12) ◽

pp. 2171-2174

Author(s):

Rajiv Nayan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Islamic Terrorism

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THE ISSUE OF THE PANKIS VALLEY IN RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GEORGIA IN THE CHECHEN WARS

BULLETIN Series of Sociological and Political sciences ◽

10.51889/2021-1.1728-8940.36 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (1) ◽

pp. 60-73

Author(s):

R.B. Absattarov ◽

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I.A. Rau ◽

Keyword(s):

Political Science ◽

Political Representation ◽

Islamic Terrorism ◽

Chechen Wars

The article examines the problem of the Pankis Valley in relations between Russia and Georgia in the Chechen wars, which has not yet been studied in socio-political science. The article discusses in more detail the issues of the peculiarities of the Pankis Valley and its population, and its ties with Chechnya, Georgia's support for Chechen militants, wide political representation, informational opportunities and media of Chechens in Georgia, Chechnya's rapprochement with Georgia and international Islamic terrorism, echo in the Pankis valley and etc. At the same time, the article also pays attention to debatable, controversial, conflicting issues.

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