%0 Journal Article
%T Book Review - "The Caucasus: An Introduction" By Frederik Coene
%A Review by Alexander Jackson
%J Caucasian Review of International Affairs
%D 2010
%I 
%X Frederik Coene is no stranger to the Caucasus. Currently the Attach¨¦ dealing with post-conflict assistance in the European Commissions¡¯ Mission to Georgia, he has also worked in organisations on both sides of the Caucasus Mountains, dealing with conflicts and developments. It is unfortunate that Mr Coene¡¯s on-ground experience ¨C he worked in the North Caucasus during the savage violence of the Beslan school siege, for instance - does not always come through in this informative, but sometimes slightly shallow, volume.To be clear, The Caucasus: An Introduction is intended to be just that. Mr Coene sets out his aim at the beginning: a thorough introductory volume which would ¡°provide factual information [and also] help the reader to understand the Caucasus a bit better¡±. The author argues that, for all the books on the Caucasus, there are none which combine and link the many different aspects of the region into a whole.
%K Caucasus
%K Chechen nationalism
%K Russia.
%U http://cria-online.org/10_11.html