The Impact of the Instability and Impunity Problem Associated with Ethnic Diversity on Regional Security: The Case of Dagestan

Abstract

Dagestan today is one of the most experienced republics in the North Caucasus Region concerning handling and familiarity with weapons. The most important factor in having this culture is the political crises and events that took place during the Soviet period. It is believed that the source of weapons in the country is Chechnya, and there have been historical reasons underlying this, as well as unique political institutions that have been developed in parallel with ethnic diversity since the 1990s. Based on the fact that the influence of the Russian Federation on other countries that left the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) has not been lost even many years before the start of the Ukrainian-Russian war, the possibility of shaking the stability that Dagestan has relatively provided nowadays comes to the agenda. As much as the presence of these groups makes the people of Dagestan nervous, it threatens the entire geography in terms of the loss of stability in the region, the ignition of a significant conflict in the Caucasus, and, therefore, the countries of the region will also be affected by this conflict. Considering the political and ethnic structure of Dagestan, the government’s attempts to collect weapons, rather than maintaining order and increasing public security, cause a group with high conflict potential to collect weapons from the hands of another high-potential group, creating the perception that the tool of this is political power. This study is based on the data obtained by literature review with qualitative methods.