Jean-Francois Ratelle

Adjunct Research Professor

Degrees:Ph.D (University of Ottawa) 2013
Email:jeanfrancois.ratelle@carleton.ca

Research Interests

  • Processes and Trajectories of Violent Militantism in Eurasia
  • Field Research and Political Ethnography in Conflict Studies

Areas of Current Teaching

  • EURR 4209/PSCI 4504: Politics of the Caucasus and Caspian Basin
  • Conflict and Terrorism in the North Caucasus
  • Central and Eastern European Politics
  • Terrorism and Radicalization
  • Conflicts, Resources, and Environment
  • Introduction to Conflict Studies

Selected Publications

Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

“Retaliation in Dagestan: The Missing Link in the Mobilization Scheme” Terrorism & Political Violence. 29, no.4, 2017, pp.573-592. Published online March 17th, 2015, (With Emil Souleimanov)

“Caucasian Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Understanding the Threat of Returnees in the North Caucasus” Caucasus Survey 4, No.3, (October 2016), pp.218-238.

“Introduction: researching networked insurgencies and foreign fighters in Eurasia” (Forthcoming) Caucasus Survey (With Laurence Broers) 4, No.3, (October 2016), pp.187-193.

“Defected and Loyal? A Case Study of Chechnya’s COIN Anti-Defection Policy”  Terrorism & Political Violence. Published online (Forthcoming) (With Emil Souleimanov and Husein Aliyev) Available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2016.1194270

“A Failed Counterinsurgency or a Model of Normalization? Making Sense of Chechenisation” Europe-Asia Studies, 68, no.8, 2016, pp.1287-1314. (With Emil Souleimanov)

“A Critical Assessment of the Scholarship on Violent Conflicts in the North Caucasus during the Post-Soviet Period” Caucasus Survey 3, No.1, (April 2015), pp.1-24.

“Conflict diffusion in internal wars: A reassessment of the spillover of the second Chechen conflict into Dagestan and Ingushetia” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism Volume 37 No. 2 (February 2014), 115-134. (With Aurélie Campana)

“Making Sense of Violence in Civil War: Challenging Academic Narratives through Political Ethnography” Critical Studies on Security, Volume 1 No.2, (September 2013), pp.159-173.

“Conflict diffusion in internal wars: A reassessment of the spillover of the second Chechen conflict into Dagestan and Ingushetia” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism Volume 37 No. 2 (February 2014), p.115-134.(With Aurélie Campana)

“Making Sense of Violence in Civil War: Challenging Academic Narratives through Political Ethnography” Critical Studies on Security, Volume 1 No.2, 2013, pp.159-173.

Book chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia  (Edited volume with Laurence Broers), Routledge, London, 2017.

“The North Caucasus Insurgency: Understanding the Chechen Rebels in the Context of the Caucasus Emirate” in Anne Le Huérou, Aude Merlin, Amandine Regamey & Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (eds). Chechnya at War and Beyond, Routledge. 2014. 

“How Participant Observation Contributes to the Study of (In)security Practices in Conflict Zones” in Mark Salter & Can Mtulu (eds.), Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, Routledge, 2012 (PRIO New Security Studies series).\

Academic Publications & Reports (Non-refereed)

“The Myth of the Black Widow” Open Democracy, 13 February 2013. Available at: http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/jean-francois-ratelle/myth-of-black-widow

“A New Anti-Terrorist Law in Russia: Feeding the Insurgency through Corruption and Police Abuses” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Matters Military, 26 November 2013. Available at:: http://journal.georgetown.edu/2013/11/26/a-new-anti-terrorist-law-in-russia-feeding-the-insurgency-through-corruption-and-police-abuses-by-jean-francois-ratelle/

“The Insurgency in the North Caucasus: Putting Religious Claims into Context” Russian Analytical Digest, no. 131, 2013.

“A case-study of Kabardino-Balkaria Insurgency: a Comparative Analysis of Ideological Trends in the North Caucasus”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No.156, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, (March 2011) (With Sufian Zhemukhov)

http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pepm_156.pdf

Newsletters & Articles (Non-refereed)

“Le bourbier nord-caucasien : la Russie à court de solutions” Grand Dossier de Diplomatie  No. 21. Juin/Juillet 2014.

“The Sochi Olympics: Understanding Terroristic Threats Emanating From the Caucasus Emirate” Huffington Post, 13 January 2014, available at : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanfrancois-ratelle/the-sochi-olympics-terror-threat_b_4585514.html

“Contextualizing Religious Profiling in Dagestan: Tsarnaev and the Kotrova Mosque” Huffington Post,  28 April 2013, available at : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanfrancois-ratelle/dagestan-tsarnaev_b_3174171.html

“Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Dagestan and Chechnya: Why and How?, Huffington Post 25 April 2013, available at : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanfrancois-ratelle/tamerlan-tsarnaev-in-dage_b_3154515.html