{"id":5893,"date":"2014-09-29T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T14:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=5893"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:51:54","slug":"jean-francois-ratelle","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/people\/jean-francois-ratelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Francois Ratelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Processes and Trajectories of Violent Militantism in Eurasia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Field Research and Political Ethnography in Conflict Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"areas-of-current-teaching\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Areas of Current Teaching<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Eurasian Politics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conflict and Terrorism in the North Caucasus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Central and Eastern European Politics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Terrorism and Radicalization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conflicts, Resources, and Environment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Conflict Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"articles-peer-reviewed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Articles (Peer-Reviewed)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Retaliation in Dagestan: The Missing Link in the Mobilization Scheme&#8221; <em>Terrorism &amp; Political Violence. <\/em> 29, no.4, 2017, pp.573-592. Published online March 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015, (With Emil Souleimanov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Caucasian Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Understanding the Threat of Returnees in the North Caucasus&#8221;<em> Caucasus Survey <\/em>4, No.3, (October 2016), pp.218-238.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Introduction: researching networked insurgencies and foreign fighters in Eurasia&#8221; (Forthcoming) <em>Caucasus Survey (<\/em>With Laurence Broers) 4, No.3, (October 2016), pp.187-193.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Defected and Loyal? A Case Study of Chechnya&#8217;s COIN Anti-Defection Policy&#8221; &nbsp;<em>Terrorism &amp; Political Violence. <\/em>Published online (Forthcoming) (With Emil Souleimanov and Husein Aliyev) Available online at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09546553.2016.1194270\">&nbsp;http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09546553.2016.1194270<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Failed Counterinsurgency or a Model of Normalization? Making Sense of Chechenisation&#8221; <em>Europe-Asia Studies, <\/em> 68, no.8, 2016, pp.1287-1314. (With Emil Souleimanov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Critical Assessment of the Scholarship on Violent Conflicts in the North Caucasus during the Post-Soviet Period&#8221;<em> Caucasus Survey <\/em>3, No.1, (April 2015), pp.1-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConflict diffusion in internal wars: A reassessment of the spillover of the second Chechen conflict into Dagestan and Ingushetia\u201d <em>Studies in Conflict &amp; Terrorism <\/em>Volume 37 No. 2 (February 2014<em>), <\/em>115-134. (With Aur\u00e9lie Campana)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaking Sense of Violence in Civil War: Challenging Academic Narratives through Political Ethnography\u201d <em>Critical Studies on Security<\/em>, Volume 1 No.2, (September 2013), pp.159-173.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConflict diffusion in internal wars: A reassessment of the spillover of the second Chechen conflict into Dagestan and Ingushetia\u201d <em>Studies in Conflict &amp; Terrorism <\/em>Volume 37 No. 2 (February 2014<em>), <\/em>p.115-134.(With Aur\u00e9lie Campana)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaking Sense of Violence in Civil War: Challenging Academic Narratives through Political Ethnography\u201d <em>Critical Studies on Security<\/em>, Volume 1 No.2, 2013, pp.159-173.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"book-chapters-peer-reviewed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book chapters (Peer-Reviewed)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia&nbsp;<\/em> (Edited volume with Laurence Broers), Routledge, London, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe North Caucasus Insurgency: Understanding the Chechen Rebels in the Context of the Caucasus Emirate\u201d in Anne Le Hu\u00e9rou, Aude Merlin, Amandine Regamey &amp; Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (eds). <em>Chechnya at War and Beyond, <\/em>Routledge. 2014.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow Participant Observation Contributes to the Study of (In)security Practices in Conflict Zones\u201d in Mark Salter &amp; Can Mtulu (eds.), <em>Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, <\/em>Routledge, 2012 (PRIO New Security Studies series).\\<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"academic-publications-reports-non-refereed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic Publications &amp; Reports (Non-refereed)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Myth of the Black Widow&#8221; <em>Open Democracy, <\/em>13 February 2013. Available at: http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/od-russia\/jean-francois-ratelle\/myth-of-black-widow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA New Anti-Terrorist Law in Russia: Feeding the Insurgency through Corruption and Police Abuses\u201d Georgetown Journal of International <em>Affairs, Matters Military,<\/em> 26 November 2013. Available at:<strong>: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"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\/\">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\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>The Insurgency in the North Caucasus: Putting Religious Claims into Context\u201d Russian Analytical Digest, no. 131, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA case-study of Kabardino-Balkaria Insurgency: a Comparative Analysis of Ideological Trends in the North Caucasus\u201d, <em>PONARS Eurasia Policy<\/em> Memo No.156, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, (March 2011) (With Sufian Zhemukhov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~ieresgwu\/assets\/docs\/ponars\/pepm_156.pdf\">http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~ieresgwu\/assets\/docs\/ponars\/pepm_156.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"newsletters-articles-non-refereed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Newsletters &amp; Articles (Non-refereed)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Le bourbier nord-caucasien : la Russie \u00e0 court de solutions&#8221; <em>Grand Dossier de Diplomatie&nbsp; <\/em>No. 21. Juin\/Juillet 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Sochi Olympics: Understanding Terroristic Threats Emanating From the Caucasus Emirate\u201d <em>Huffington Post,<\/em>&nbsp;13 January 2014, available at&nbsp;: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeanfrancois-ratelle\/the-sochi-olympics-terror-threat_b_4585514.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeanfrancois-ratelle\/the-sochi-olympics-terror-threat_b_4585514.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cContextualizing Religious Profiling in Dagestan: Tsarnaev and the Kotrova Mosque\u201d <em>Huffington Post,<\/em>&nbsp; 28 April 2013, available at&nbsp;: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeanfrancois-ratelle\/dagestan-tsarnaev_b_3174171.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeanfrancois-ratelle\/dagestan-tsarnaev_b_3174171.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTamerlan Tsarnaev in Dagestan and Chechnya: Why and How?, <em>Huffington Post<\/em> 25 April 2013, available at&nbsp;: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeanfrancois-ratelle\/tamerlan-tsarnaev-in-dage_b_3154515.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeanfrancois-ratelle\/tamerlan-tsarnaev-in-dage_b_3154515.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16849,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jean-Francois","cu_people_last_name":"Ratelle","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[20],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-5893","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-contract-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Contract Instructor, Carleton University; Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D (University of Ottawa) 2013","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jeanfrancois.ratelle@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16853,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5893\/revisions\/16853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}