All Stories

  1. The Politics of Perception: Identity, Media, and Major-Power Attitudes in Central Asia

    Article • Ethnopolitics, July 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Valery Dzutsati

  2. Liberalism of religious Muslims in illiberal Muslim-majority and minority societies: evidence from Azerbaijan and Georgia

    Article • Politics and Religion, December 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Valery Dzutsati

  3. Defection Denied

    Article • March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Valery Dzutsati, Professor David S. Siroky

  4. Explaining Diversionary Domestic Conflict: Inequality and Communitarianism in Russia

    Article • Ethnopolitics, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Valery Dzutsati

  5. Secessionist conflict as diversion from inequality: The missing link between grievance and repression

    Article • Conflict Management and Peace Science, November 2021, SAGE Publications

    Valery Dzutsati

  6. Social alienation and cultural distance in the context of secession in the South Caucasus

    Article • Nations and Nationalism, August 2021, Wiley

    Valery Dzutsati

  7. The socioeconomic matrix of support for sharia: a cross-national study of Muslims’ attitudes

    Article • Religion State & Society, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Valery Dzutsati

  8. Geographies of hybrid war: rebellion and foreign intervention in Ukraine

    Article • Small Wars and Insurgencies, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Valery Dzutsati

  9. Ethnicity or Religion? A Theory of Identity Choice with Evidence from the Russian North Caucasus

    Article • Nationalities Papers, July 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Valery Dzutsati

  10. Russia's Syria War: A Strategic Trap?

    Article • Middle East Policy, June 2018, Wiley

    Valery Dzutsati

  11. The Political Economy of Support for Sharia: Evidence from the Russian North Caucasus

    Article • Politics and Religion, May 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Valery Dzutsati, Professor David S. Siroky

  12. The Empire Strikes Back: Ethnicity, Terrain, and Indiscriminate Violence in Counterinsurgencies*

    Article • Social Science Quarterly, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor David S. Siroky, Valery Dzutsati

  13. Comparative analysis of public opinion and hostage attack victims’ attitudes: evidence from Beslan, September 2004

    Article • Caucasus Survey, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Valery Dzutsati

  14. Comparative analysis of public opinion and hostage attack victims’ attitudes: evidence from Beslan, September 2004

    Article • Caucasus Survey, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Valery Dzutsati

  15. The differential demand for indirect rule: evidence from the North Caucasus

    Article • Post-Soviet Affairs, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Valery Dzutsati, Professor David S. Siroky

  16. Rational or reckless? Georgia's zugzwang in the Caucasus

    Article • Nationalities Papers, May 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky, Valery Dzutsati