Chechnya's Secret Wartime Diplomacy Aslan Maskhadov and the Quest for a Peaceful Resolution

by Akhmadov, Ilyas; Daniloff, Nicholas; Semenov, Anatoly; Kramer, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781137338785
• ISBN10: 1137338784
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

For the first time in English, this volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmadov and Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, who would be killed by the Russians during the second Chechen-Russian War in March 2005. This correspondence - carried out via audio cassette due to Maskhadov's fears of revealing his geographic position to the Russians - provides revelatory insights into both men's attempts to secure Western support for a peaceful transition to an independent Chechnya.

Author Biography

Ilyas Akhmadov served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Chechen government from 1999 to 2005. He is the author of The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost (2010).
 
Nicholas Daniloff is a Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University, USA. A former correspondent for UPI and US News and World Report, he is the author of several books, including Of Spies and Spokemen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent (2008).
 
Anatoly Semenov is Assistant Professor at the Defense Language Institute in California, USA.
 
Mark Kramer is Editor of the Journal of Cold War Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA.

Table of Contents

1 Maskhadov's First Briefing
2. Immediate Tasks Ahead
3. Contact with Dr. Brzezinski
4. Taliban Recognition of Chechnya
5. Russian Army Disintegrating?
6. Election of George W. Bush
7. Russia Goes Authoritarian
8. Mystery Kidnapping of Dr. Gluck
9. Russia Seeks to Bribe Maskhadov out of Chechnya
10. Meeting with Putin Suddenly Cancelled
11. Akhmadov Talks with U.S. State Department
12. Maskhadov Hopes for CIA Support
13. Seeking Negotiations
14. Challenge of Rebel Commanders
15. The Gelayev Problem in Georgia
16. Reaction to 9/11
17. Maskhadov Names a Successor
18. The January 27 Presidential Issue
19. Russia Takes Advantage of 9/11
20. The problem with Lord Judd
21. The Russian Policy of Rape
22. Solving the Chechen Problem
23. Peace Plans for Chechnya Fail
24. Maskhadov's Last Message
25. The Voice from Beyond