{"id":1416,"date":"2009-11-01T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2009-11-03T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T19:14:19","slug":"russias-muslim-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2009\/11\/russias-muslim-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Russia&#8217;s Muslim Strategy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/10\/russia_islam_laqueur.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1417\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/10\/laqueurcover.jpg\" alt=\"laqueurcover\" width=\"263\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/10\/laqueurcover.jpg 263w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/10\/laqueurcover-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a>Walter Laqueur contributes a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/10\/russia_islam_laqueur.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new paper<\/a> to MESH\u2019s <em>Middle East Papers<\/em> series, on Russia\u2019s Muslim strategy. That strategy, barely coherent, is riddled with contradictions, as Russia vacillates between resentment of the American-led world order and fear of an ascendant Islam. For now, it\u2019s the resentment against the West that dominates the Russian outlook, resulting in a makeshift approach to Islam at home and abroad that may prove inadequate as Russia\u2019s own Muslim minorities and neighboring Muslim states grow stronger. Download <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/10\/russia_islam_laqueur.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #808080;font-size: x-small\"><em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Comments are limited to MESH members and invitees.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin Walter Laqueur contributes a new paper to MESH\u2019s Middle East Papers series, on Russia\u2019s Muslim strategy. That strategy, barely coherent, is riddled with contradictions, as Russia vacillates between resentment of the American-led world order and fear of an ascendant Islam. For now, it\u2019s the resentment against the West that dominates the Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2796,1421,2409,2991,2579,2260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caucasus","category-central-asia","category-islam-in-west","category-mark-n-katz","category-russia","category-walter-laqueur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}