Jean-Francois Ratelle
Contract Instructor, 杏吧原创 University; Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa
- Ph.D (University of Ottawa) 2013
- Email Jean-Francois Ratelle
Research Interests
- Processes and Trajectories of Violent Militantism in Eurasia
- Field Research and Political Ethnography in Conflict Studies
Areas of Current Teaching
- Eurasian Politics
- 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
“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.
鈥淐onflict diffusion in internal wars: A reassessment of the spillover of the second Chechen conflict into Dagestan and Ingushetia鈥 Studies in Conflict & Terrorism Volume 37 No. 2 (February 2014), 115-134. (With Aur茅lie Campana)
鈥淢aking Sense of Violence in Civil War: Challenging Academic Narratives through Political Ethnography鈥 Critical Studies on Security, Volume 1 No.2, (September 2013), pp.159-173.
鈥淐onflict diffusion in internal wars: A reassessment of the spillover of the second Chechen conflict into Dagestan and Ingushetia鈥 Studies in Conflict & Terrorism Volume 37 No. 2 (February 2014), p.115-134.(With Aur茅lie Campana)
鈥淢aking Sense of Violence in Civil War: Challenging Academic Narratives through Political Ethnography鈥 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.
鈥淭he North Caucasus Insurgency: Understanding the Chechen Rebels in the Context of the Caucasus Emirate鈥 in Anne Le Hu茅rou, Aude Merlin, Amandine Regamey & Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (eds). Chechnya at War and Beyond, Routledge. 2014.
鈥淗ow Participant Observation Contributes to the Study of (In)security Practices in Conflict Zones鈥 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
鈥淎 New Anti-Terrorist Law in Russia: Feeding the Insurgency through Corruption and Police Abuses鈥 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Matters Military, 26 November 2013. Available at::
鈥The Insurgency in the North Caucasus: Putting Religious Claims into Context鈥 Russian Analytical Digest, no. 131, 2013.
鈥淎 case-study of Kabardino-Balkaria Insurgency: a Comparative Analysis of Ideological Trends in the North Caucasus鈥, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No.156, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, (March 2011) (With Sufian Zhemukhov)
Newsletters & Articles (Non-refereed)
“Le bourbier nord-caucasien : la Russie 脿 court de solutions” Grand Dossier de Diplomatie No. 21. Juin/Juillet 2014.
鈥淭he Sochi Olympics: Understanding Terroristic Threats Emanating From the Caucasus Emirate鈥 Huffington Post, 13 January 2014, available at :
鈥淐ontextualizing Religious Profiling in Dagestan: Tsarnaev and the Kotrova Mosque鈥 Huffington Post, 28 April 2013, available at :
鈥淭amerlan Tsarnaev in Dagestan and Chechnya: Why and How?, Huffington Post 25 April 2013, available at :