Marie Bennigsen-Broxup
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Marie Bennigsen-Broxup is one of the leading European experts on the Caucasus and Central Asia, with particular emphais on Muslim communities within these regions. She is a daughter of the Russian émigré scholar of Islam, Alexandre Bennigsen. Broxup joined the Society for Central Asian Studies in Oxford in 1981 and has been edited the London-based Central Asian Survey quarterly since then. She also edited Central Asia and Caucasus Chronicle from 1981 to 1990, and served as a consultant on Caucasian affairs to the French ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs. She has traveled to study the situation in Chechnya several times since 1993.[1]
[edit] Main works
- The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State (Croom Helm, London, 1983 coauthored with Alexandre Bennigsen)
- The North Caucasus Barrier. The Russian Advance towards the Muslim World (Hurst & Co, London, 1992)
